Hi Matt, Thanks for your very helpful reply.
I know this is a noob question, so please forgive me for taxing your patience... How do I evaluate the statement you supplied for just one file? E.g. I want to evaluate your statement for notes.org, what do I do? Thanks, JB On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Matt Lundin <m...@imapmail.org> wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > Joseph Buchignani <joseph.buchign...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Summary: I would like habits to automatically be marked as the todo >> keyword "HABIT" instead of "TODO" after I mark them "DONE" >> >> Reasons: >> I want to keep my habits separate from my tasks. But they display >> together on my TODO list. This makes it hard to keep track of what's a >> habit and what's not. >> >> I could change a setting so that scheduled tasks are no longer >> considered open. But then I lose the ability to see all my habits in a >> list on the TODO view. >> >> Also, I like to see habits clearly marked HABIT instead of TODO in my >> org outline. >> >> Keeping the keywords separated fits better with my workflow. Normally I >> only need to work on habits from within the org agenda, not the todo >> list. For example, I start the day by executing scheduled tasks, then >> priority A tasks, then priority A habits, etc. >> >> Is there some setting I can change to do this? Right now I am doing it >> manually. > > Apologies for the late reply, but one simple way to make sure repeating > habits return to a HABIT state is to add a REPEAT_TO_STATE property to > each of your habits. (Of course, HABIT needs to be defined in your > org-todo-keywords.) > > E.g., > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > * HABIT Run > SCHEDULED: <2010-11-09 Tue .+1d/2d> > :PROPERTIES: > :STYLE: habit > :REPEAT_TO_STATE: HABIT > :END: > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > If you want to do this quickly for all existing habits you could > evaluate the following: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (org-map-entries '(org-set-property "REPEAT_TO_STATE" "HABIT") > "+STYLE=\"HABIT\"" 'agenda) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Best, > Matt > -- Ignore the following. It is a nonsense sentence that disables Google ads from displaying next to my emails by triggering sensitive keywords. I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads without a messy bloodbath. _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
