Re: Some question on How to handle date, recursive events

[Ihor Radchenko]

Renato Pontefice <renato.pontefice@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
> I’m building my own calendar. I try to check:
> 1 - retry a thing until it is not done
> 2 - recursive events (each week, every first Friday of month…)
>
>
> i.e.
> 1)
> ** TODO call Paul < 2022 10 05 10:30  +1d>
> In this example I’ve created an Agenda view that remember me to call Paul 
> every day, at 10:30 each day until Paul answer me. Then I would set it as 
> DONE.Today Paul has answers me, but if I try to set it as DONE (Shift - right 
> arrow) it does not cycle to DONE state. I’ve  thought that is the + 1d that 
> block me to set as DONE. I’ve removed it and now it goes as DONE. But the 
> entry still appear on next days as DONE. Why it does not erase it self from 
> Agenda view? Is it possible? Or not?

1. You can run C-u -1 C-c C-t to inhibit the repeater (see org-todo
docstring; C-h f org-todo <RET>)
2. Check out org-agenda-skip-timestamp-if-done

> 2)
> Is the a way to set recursive events like “the firs Friday of the month” or 
> each Tuesday of the month, not date-related (I mean: with +1 w I add the 
> event the days x +7 days. Isn’t it?

See diary-style timestamps in https://orgmode.org/manual/Timestamps.html

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