I'm using org-mode and the agenda for weekly planning, kind of like a calendar. Entries include things like "sleeping 11pm to 6am" and "gym 3pm to 5pm", or even "read dresden files 8pm to 9pm". I use regular active timestamps for this.
Say I have to be somewhere 9am to 5pm every day except Sundays for the next 5 weeks.
Things I've thought of:
- Use
org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift
, manually delete any Sundays, and put it all in its own subtree so I can archive it later. If the schedule changes, it's quite a bit of error prone editing work. - Single headline with multiple (30) active timestamps. That way, at least I can use column editing to shift times around. Still a lot of noise, though.
- Put an entry with 6 repeating stamps (every day except Sunday) in its own file, remove from agenda files when done.
I want to keep past schedules for reference (i.e.: what was my schedule 23 days ago? How much time was I putting into the gym last month? Have I been scheduling enough reading time recently? And so on), so completely removing things from the agenda (such as temporary files in agenda-files) is not very useful to me.
How would you handle a situation like this in your agenda?
Is there a reason org-mode doesn't support an "end" mark for repeating entries?