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I would like to schedule a todo item every Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
I followed this one: Org-mode schedule 1 event for multiple days?
and get something like this:
* stuff to do
SCHEDULED: <Monday 4/5/2020 +1w><Wed 6/5/2020 +1w><Fri 8/5/2020 +1w>
This doesnt show up on my agenda. So I think the way I write it down is wrong. Could anyone give some pointers?
One idea would be to create a custom function that tests for specified days of the week. The following example is hard-coded to return t for Monday (i.e., 1), Wednesday (i.e., 3) and Friday (i.e., 5).
This can be used in an org-mode file such as:
* My Task
SCHEDULED: <%%(diary-monday-wednesday-friday date)>
Or, it can be used in a diary file and seen in the agenda view with (setq org-agenda-include-diary t) using a diary entry such as:
%%(diary-monday-wednesday-friday date) Monday or Wednesday or Friday
CODE:
(require 'calendar)
;;; ORG-MODE: * My Task
;;; SCHEDULED: <%%(diary-monday-wednesday-friday date)>
;;;
;;; DIARY: %%(diary-monday-wednesday-friday date) Monday or Wednesday or Friday
;;;
;;; See also: (setq org-agenda-include-diary t)
;;;
;;; (diary-monday-wednesday-friday '(5 7 2020)) => nil
;;;
;;; (diary-monday-wednesday-friday '(5 8 2020)) => t
;;;
;;; 0 => Sunday
;;; 1 => Monday
;;; 2 => Tuesday
;;; 3 => Wednesday
;;; 4 => Thursday
;;; 5 => Friday
;;; 6 => Saturday
;;;
(defun diary-monday-wednesday-friday (date)
"Return `t` if DATE is a Monday, Wednesday or Friday."
(let ((day-of-week (calendar-day-of-week date)))
(member day-of-week '(1 3 5))))
If this is really an appointment reminder, rather than a scheduled task, then the easiest thing to do is to forego the SCHEDULED: marker and just have the three timestamps listed (I like putting the timestamps on different lines, but you can put them on a single line if you want):
* stuff to do
<Monday 4/5/2020 +1w>
<Wed 6/5/2020 +1w>
<Fri 8/5/2020 +1w>
Assuming that the file is indeed an agenda file, stuff to do will appear in the agenda every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
SCHEDULEDin Org mode means something different than e.g. scheduling a meeting. See the discussion in the manual, particularly the disclaimer markedImportant. E.g. if you have a meeting at 11am every MWF, then you probably should not mark itSCHEDULED, you should just use a timestamp. It's not clear from your example whether you want/needSCHEDULEDor not, so I thought I'd point that out.