Hi Kevin,
On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 at 11:46, Kevin Liu <ke...@nivekuil.com> wrote:
On 29 July 2020 04:06, Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2...@gmail.com> wrote:
Kevin, how do you see an hourly repeater would work with org-habit's
consistency graph? Or, more generally, what would be the purpose of
an
hourly repeated habit task?
An example of an hourly repeated habit task is exercise. You might
want
to stretch in the morning and then again at night.
You raise a good point that the consistency graph isn't as useful as
it
could be. All it shows now is that the habit was done at least once
on
that day. I think this is still a little useful, if only to visually
separate a habit from other tasks on the agenda. It could be made
more
useful by replacing the * with a count of the number of times the task
was done that day, but that would be another patch.
I get why a task (exercising, taking medicine, etc) is usefully repeated
a number of times a day, of course. But a regular repeating task is
perfectly fine for this. Furthermore, considering the only thing
org-habit does is to provide the consistency graph for the task, and if
this does not really work for hourly repeaters, I still don't see the
gain here. And there would be other ways, in my view more appropriate
ones, to separate some tasks, if that's desired. IMHO, what you are
proposing is just eliminating an error message which was deliberately
placed there by the author, considering what org-habit is designed to
do. But this is just an user speaking, take this as a data point.
Anyway, you have replied just for me, off-list. I presume you meant
otherwise, and your point is relevant in the list, so I reincluded the
CCs to it.
Best,
Gustavo.