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[emacs-wiki-discuss] planner-cyclic
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John S J Anderson |
Subject: |
[emacs-wiki-discuss] planner-cyclic |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Mar 2004 07:55:24 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, linux) |
I'm trying to start using planner (and emacs-wiki, etc) for my
planning. It seems like it should fit fairly well with what I've
been doing with pen'n'paper. Naturally, I'm finding a few spots
where things don't work exactly as I want them to. I'll try to keep
the questions down to a mild flood. 8^)=
One of the things I do (hopefully, "did") in my pen'n'paper set up
was a sheet of daily tasks -- things that I need to do or try to do
every day, like take some medications, work out, etc. It seems like
'planner-cyclic' is the Right Thing for this.
Here's my planner config:
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; PREREQS
(require 'planner)
(require 'planner-bbdb)
(require 'planner-cyclic)
(require 'planner-diary)
(require 'planner-gnus)
(require 'planner-id)
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; HOOKS
(planner-install-extra-task-keybindings)
(planner-calendar-insinuate)
(planner-diary-insinuate)
(planner-gnus-insinuate)
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; OPTIONS
(planner-option-customized 'planner-directory "~/doc/plans")
(planner-option-customized 'planner-publishing-directory "~/html/wiki")
(setq
planner-carry-tasks-forward t
planner-cyclic-diary-file "~/.diary-cyclic"
planner-cyclic-diary-nag nil)
and here is ~/.diary-cyclic:
*/*/* #A0 _ Take morning pills
*/*/* #A0 _ Take evening pills
*/*/* #A0 _ Work out: __ minute level _ ___ = ___ mi ; ___ cal (WorkOut)
*/*/* #B0 _ Write diary
*/*/* #C0 _ Zaurus sync
At first, everything appeared to be working just like I wanted it --
I get those tasks in every "day" page. But since these tasks are
daily, if I forget to do one, I don't want it to carry over. I
thought that's what setting planner-cyclic-diary-nag to nil was
supposed to do, but it appears that undone tasks are getting carried
over -- maybe because of planner-carry-tasks-forward being t? If
anybody could shed light on this, I'd be grateful.
One other thing I'd like to have is the ability to have a mix of
cyclic tasks, some that carry over automatically and some that
don't. Is there any way to accomplish that?
Is there any way to have a cyclic task only Monday through Friday
without spelling out each day in the diary-cyclic file?
FWIW, I've come up with ways I could kludge around most of these
problems, but they all seem to involve creating some tasks I don't
want and marking them as done. I'd like to avoid that, because one
of my long-term aspirations is to write some scripts that crawl day
pages and generate stats on how often I do or don't complete these
cyclic tasks.
thanks for any help,
john.
--
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve
change amid order." - Alfred North Whitehead
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