Re: [Emacs-orgmode] Re: Cyclic timestamps for SCHEDULED and DEADLINE

[Carsten Dominik]

On Apr 28, 2006, at 18:23, Christian Egli wrote:
> > Yes I understand.  A very basic problem with cyclic scheduling is that
> > if you don't mark the entry DONE, then you can get many of those tasks
> > in your agenda.
>
> But AFAIK this is only a problem because the scheduled tasks show up in
> the "all currently open items" section. If scheduled items would no
> longer show up there then this problem would not exist, wouldn't it?


No, this is unrelated.  If you schedule an item for the 1st of May, and 
the same item again for the first of June, then from the first of June 
you will have two entries in your agenda for today, reminding you that 
you did not finish two things scheduled previously and not done yet.

Another problem is how to mark things DONE and still reschedule them 
next time.  Imagine we had something like

*** TODO Buy fresh milk
    SCHEDULED: <*-*-01>

Lets say I get this entry in May and I finish it and mark it DONE.  In 
the Org-mode way, this means that I have to change TODO to DONE:

*** DONE Buy fresh milk
    SCHEDULED: <*-*-01>

However, now it look like this thing is DONE and should never be 
scheduled again.   Hmmm, this would really require a new piece of 
syntax.....

- Carsten

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