Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] planner-task-appt.el

[Henrik S. Hansen]

Jim Ottaway <address@hidden> writes:

>> I've been hacking on appointment integration for planner tasks.
>
> I am embarrassed that I didn't see that you were intending to work on
> this before I posted something similar a few days ago.  Perhaps we
> could merge them,

Sure.  But I'm not sure how we could merge the two projects, since we go
in opposite directions.  I want to do away with the diary completely,
for example.  But I'm open to ideas, of course.  Certainly, one
planner/appt integration library should be enough.  We should cooperate,
not compete. :-)

> and make it an option whether to look at the task or schedule data?

I don't know exactly what you mean.

>> ;; planner-task-appt-insinuate does not work with
>> ;; planner-diary-insinuate, as this removes all task appointments.
>> ;; You probably don't want to use both this library and
>> ;; planner-diary.el
>
> It is using appt-make-list as a hook in diary-hook that causes the
> problem because it delete previous appointments.

Exactly, that's the problem.  But it's not a big problem since
planner-diary is not needed when using planner-task-appt, in my
opinion.  I guess this depends on how you like to plan your day.  Jody
Klymak said he found the distinction between appointments and tasks
useful.  I don't -- I see appointments as time-specific tasks.

The only thing the diary can still do is yearly and monthly cyclic
entries, which could to be hacked into planner-cyclic.  It also has
"blocks", but I guess this is covered by a schedule/timeclock combo?

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