Re: [O] org-habit for multiple arbitrary days in a week

[James Harkins]

At Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:56:04 +0200,
Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> > ** TODO Update lesson gradesheet   
> > :Comp:
> >SCHEDULED: <2014-10-13 Mon +1w>
> >SCHEDULED: <2014-10-17 Fri +1w>
> 
> You can't. This is invalid Org syntax (only one scheduled keyword per
> entry).

I see... perhaps it should be filed under "wish list" to support an "arbitrary 
days of week" repeater style. One way might be something like "<2014-10-13 Mon 
+4d +3d>": First advance by 4 days, then by 3 days, then 4 again and so on.

I would call it a low priority enhancement. There might actually be some 
benefit to tracking consistency on the two days separately. But the fact 
remains, if someone needed to treat it as one task that happens on two or three 
arbitrary days during the week (always the same days) and it wouldn't be useful 
for her to split them, org-habit currently does not support this as far as I 
can see.

hjh

Re: [O] org-habit for multiple arbitrary days in a week

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

James Harkins  writes:

> I can also add multiple SCHEDULED lines. But org-habit doesn't work well with 
> this either.
>
> ** TODO Update lesson gradesheet 
> :Comp:
>SCHEDULED: <2014-10-13 Mon +1w>
>SCHEDULED: <2014-10-17 Fri +1w>

You can't. This is invalid Org syntax (only one scheduled keyword per
entry).


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

[O] org-habit for multiple arbitrary days in a week

[James Harkins]

I have a task that I want to track using org-habit. I've spent about an hour 
looking through the manual and other sites, but so far the problem remains 
intractable.

With org-habit, it's easy to track something that should be done on one 
particular day of the week: .+1w.

It appears not to be easy to track something that should be done on two 
arbitrary days of the week.

It's easy to schedule something for two specific days of the week using a sexp. 
But, org-habit (for sensible reasons) doesn't support sexps.

I can also add multiple SCHEDULED lines. But org-habit doesn't work well with 
this either.

** TODO Update lesson gradesheet   
:Comp:
   SCHEDULED: <2014-10-13 Mon +1w>
   SCHEDULED: <2014-10-17 Fri +1w>
   :PROPERTIES:
   :STYLE:habit
   :LOGGING:  TODO MAYBE INPROG MTG | DONE(!) POSTPONED
   :END:

Now, if I mark this item DONE, org-habit moves *both* scheduled dates forward 
to next week, even though 10-17 is still in the future and it's neither needed 
nor desirable to advance it. That is, scheduled dates that are today or in the 
past should move up, while scheduled dates in the future should be left alone. 
I guess the issue with that would be that you couldn't set a task DONE earlier 
than scheduled. That's not an issue for this specific task, but maybe for 
others.

I suppose the worst case is that I could create two "Update lesson gradesheet" 
entries, but that seems highly inelegant...?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

hjh