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From: Eric S Fraga <esflists@gmail.com>
To: Emil Marklund <eeemil@acc.umu.se>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Feature request] Repeatable tasks workday
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:08:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87va0tihlt.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6529b7d3-1ec5-b6ef-b6e1-808d7c7440b6@acc.umu.se> (Emil Marklund's message of "Fri, 8 Mar 2019 13:05:29 +0100")

On Friday,  8 Mar 2019 at 13:05, Emil Marklund wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Some[1][2][3] have been asking for a method to create repeatable tasks
> that repeats on workdays (Monday to Friday). As far as I can tell, there
> is no "native support" for this in org-mode.  It would be neat if one
> could specify repeatable tasks with a simple syntax, such as "+1wd" for
> defining deadlines on tasks that should be repeated for each workday.

This is non-trivial, especially as the concept of a work day is not the
same around the world.

The easiest solution, which I use, is to have weekly repeated tasks for
each "work day"; i.e. 5 different tasks, one for Monday, one for
Tuesday, etc.

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.2.2-249-g51444a

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-08 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-08 12:05 [Feature request] Repeatable tasks workday Emil Marklund
2019-03-08 14:08 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2019-03-16  7:25   ` Thorsten Jolitz

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