Re: [Orgmode] Re: Added support for "habit tracking"

[Marcelo de Moraes Serpa]

> Habits are different from tasks.  It is "suggested" that you do them
> within a range of time, but it's not completion which is important,
> rather consistency over the long-run.  Hence the graph to indicate your
> overall progress on the goal of being consistent.

But isn't consistency in the long-run the fact that you have actually *completed* them?

So, the thing here is the concept of habit. So, from what I could understand, a habit has to happen during a period of time and have a deadline. 

In this case, IMO, a weekly review is a habit, even though it does not happen daily, it still has consistent period to be respected (1 day, every seven days), and a deadline (the very same day). Or habits need to be daily?

Thanks!

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:34 AM, John Wiegley <address@hidden> wrote:

On Oct 23, 2009, at 2:10 AM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:

How could I define it so I can have a habit that happens weekly but that has a hard deadline of that very same weekday it has been specified to?

In this case you would use an ordinary task with a ++1w repeater.  Are you wanting to use habits just for the graph?

Habits are different from tasks.  It is "suggested" that you do them within a range of time, but it's not completion which is important, rather consistency over the long-run.  Hence the graph to indicate your overall progress on the goal of being consistent.

A weekly review, on the other hand, is something that you really should do every week, and if you miss it doesn't matter how well you've been doing in the past, a single missed week could throw you off considerably.

John