Daya Atapattu <atapat...@gmail.com> writes:
> Is there a way to create a habit that picks-up the description from a
> list?
>
> I like to schedule studying a book: It would be scheduled as "Read
> pages 100-125." Then the next day it should read "Read pages 126-150."
> The description of the habit varies; org-mode picks that up
> sequentially from a list.
>
> Is that possible?
>
> Regards,
>
> - Daya
I was scheduling all my TODOs for the day and using agenda view to clock my
progress through them. But I've been skimming once again through org-mode
users' descriptions of how they use org-mode, and one mentioned only to use
scheduling for things like appointments.
So my advice will step around your use of habits, although I do this without
recently haing adopted org-habits into my workflow, so maybe I am missing
something.
So instead of scheduling, I would have you tag these headlines, or similarly
set them under a tree with a CATEGORY, and simly toggle their TODO state as you
want to work on them. Here is an example of a custom-command:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
'(("B" "Books"
((tags-todo "-nofilter"))
((org-agenda-category-filter-preset '("+read"))
;; or
;; (org-agenda-tags-filter-preset '("+read"))
))
#+END_SRC
So if you think you will keep the reading notes in a few concentrated places,
then CATEGORY should do, whereas if you think you would have related headlines
strewn about, the tag-filter may be better.
Here is an example org-file:
#+BEGIN_SRC org
#+TODO: TODO(t) NEXT | DONE
#+TAGS: read(r) other
* book reading
:PROPERTIES:
:CATEGORY: read
:VISIBILITY: children
:END:
** DONE pages 100-125 :read:
** NEXT pages 125-150 :read:
** TODO pages 150-175 :read:
#+END_SRC
If you'd like to experiment with an additional agenda view for clocking, try
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(agenda ""
(org-agenda-span 'day)
(org-agenda-log-mode-items '(closed clock state))
(org-agenda-start-with-log-mode t)
(org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done t))
#+END_SRC
You may want to tweak so that you can get a view of total clocked or just a
view of those days where you read. It's not org-habits, but it could still
potentially show you your progress in way that can motivate.
--
Brady
