[Orgmode] Re: Scheduling of 2-day events

[Bernt Hansen]

Markus Heller <address@hidden> writes:

> Bernt Hansen wrote:
>> Markus Heller <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> subject says it all.  Is this the appropriate way of doing scheduling
>>> a 2-day event (couldn't find an example in the manual):
>>>
>>> * TODO Career/Training/Courses
>>> ** TODO Project Management Workshop
>>>    SCHEDULED: <2009-11-19 Thu 9:00-16:30>--<2009-11-20 Fri 9:00-16:30>
>>>
>>>
>>> The agenda out put (C-c a a) looks like this:
>>>
>>> Thursday   19 November 2009
>>>   ABC:       9:00-16:30 Scheduled:  TODO Project Management Workshop
>>>   ABC:       9:00-16:30 (1/2):  TODO Project Management Workshop
>>> Friday     20 November 2009
>>>   ABC:      (2/2):  TODO Project Management Workshop
>>
>> I would just drop the SCHEDULED: part
>>
>> ** TODO Project Management Workshop
>>    <2009-11-19 Thu 9:00-16:30>--<2009-11-20 Fri 9:00-16:30>
>>
>> so you don't get a duplicate entry.  I'd also drop the TODO since it's
>> scheduled for a block of time and when the time is gone it's done -
>> whether you mark it DONE or not.
>
>
> Thanks for your reply, Bernt.
>
> The TODO changes to STARTED when I clock this task in, which I do when
> I'm working on my preparation.  I could have a sub-task for
> preparation and clock this, but in the end, this doesn't really matter
> too much to me.

Yes mine does too - but then I just move it back to no TODO keyword and
keep the clock running.

I don't normally clock in 'events', I clock in todo tasks - so if
there's something to do to prepare for the event I would normally stick
that in another task and clock that instead.

-Bernt