Beware “DONE” shifts on repeating events In orgmode you have several ways to make a repeating event. One of the ways is to simply incude an active date under a headline, and include a repeating directive in it like so: <2023-09-18 Mon 12:30-13:30 +1w> This is fine, for example, when noting someone’s class schedule (not my own where I would need notes for each individual class). * TODO Bill's Schedule this semester <2023-09-18 Mon 12:30-13:30 +1w> <2023-09-19 Tue 11:00-16:00 +1w> <2023-09-20 Wed 12:30-13:30 +1w> <2023-09-21 Thu 11:00-15:00 +1w> <2023-09-22 Fri 11:00-16:00 +1w> However, if you ever make these under a TODO item, and then mark it “DONE,” be aware that it shifts the times of every one of these entries by the +1w, not just the one for today that you probably meant.

Updated: [2021-12-09 Thu] comment clarifying “macros” Intro Time to make a new daily event for the next 90 days, but it shouldn’t have weekends. Most of these steps become muscle memory after getting used to emacs macro power in orgmode files, sql dumps, dired find-and-replace, text formatting, YAML/XML/HTML/JSON/EDN tailoring, etc. It’s the speed and flexibility of this method that shines, allowing for solutions to very specific problems, or just nice custom orgmode agenda entries in this case.

I had a problem where my orgmode agenda had stopped displaying my “scheduled” items, which I require for my workflow. I must have been playing around with the customize group when I broke this, because that’s where I found the answer: I had set a non-zero number and needed to reset to 0 here: customize-variable Org Scheduled Delay Days

If you work much with the Orgmode agenda you soon find that you can have a huge amount of appointments and todo tasks to deal with. You can sort these by putting tags on the, either straight from the agenda view (with :) or in the actual org file (with C-c while point is over a headline). You can then use those tags to filter and search your agenda (from agenda view, with / and \ followed by TAB).

If you work much with the Orgmode agenda you soon find that you can have a huge amount of appointments and todo tasks to deal with. You can sort these by putting tags on the, either straight from the agenda view (with :) or in the actual org file (with C-c while point is over a headline). You can then use those tags to filter and search your agenda (from agenda view, with / and \ followed by TAB).