Hello Marcin Thanks, for the answer. (setq org-habit-show-habits-only-for-today nil) did the trick. Perhaps this should go into the manual ...
Best, Iannis Z. On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Marcin Borkowski <mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl>wrote: > Dnia 2013-09-29, o godz. 02:21:55 > Iannis Zannos <zan...@gmail.com> napisał(a): > > > Hello, > > > > having tried out the "habits" module after studying the manual on > > TODOs and scheduling, I cannot make habits work. Reason: > > > > When I set the :SCHEDULED: property of a node with a repetition > > interval such as: <2013-09-27 Fri .+1d>, then changing the TODO > > status from TODO to DONE will > > > > 1. change the status back to TODO (so that the item stays > > scheduled for a next time) > > 2. change the date of SCHEDULED to one day after the date of > > completion of the task > > > > This is consistent with the description in the manual at 8.3.2 > > Repeated tasks, and makes sense. However, it interferes with habits, > > because it changes the date from which the tracking of the habit > > repetition of the task is being tracked. This means that this node > > disappears from the habit display in the agenda. Also, it undoes the > > configured logging mechanism (for example, note+timestamp for DONE > > state. > > > > Am I overseeing something? Surely it must be my mistake. I saw habits > > at work in the chat of Sacha Chua with Bastien Guerry ( > > > http://sachachua.com/blog/2013/07/emacs-chat-sacha-chua-with-bastien-guerry/ > ) > > and was quite impressed. But I could not repeat the same results as I > > saw on Sacha's screen. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Iannis Zannos > > Tip 1: try setting org-habit-show-habits-only-for-today to nil (or > waiting until tomorrow;)). > > Tip 2: it seems you mustn't track changes /into/ a TODO state, only > into DONE. See note at the bottom here: > http://mbork.pl/2013-09-23_Automatic_insertion_of_habit_templates_%28en%29 > > Hth, > > -- > Marcin Borkowski > http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski > Adam Mickiewicz University > >
