Auto reschedule?

[semilin]

Is it possible to make events be rescheduled automatically?

[mrcnski]

Hey @semilin! It's Emacs so anything is possible 🙃 What kind of behavior are you after?

[semilin]

I'd like to be able to allow tasks that are scheduled (but not todos) to automatically reschedule after their time has passed. For example, if I have a summer class occurring every weekday at 11:40, then after 11:40 has passed each day, then the recur-done is performed on the task.
I'd also be fine with just making this the behavior for every task scheduled with recur.

[mrcnski]

Sure, could add a function to org-agenda's refresh hook that checks if the desired tasks (either selected tasks, or every task) are past their schedule date or time. The tricky part would be the rescheduling logic. If I open org-agenda for the first time in several days then I would want overdue +1 tasks scheduled to today, not to tomorrow.

The way I use org-agenda is that I make manual decisions on whether something is done and then reschedule the task myself, using the recurrence as only a suggestion. Sometimes I schedule a +1 task to two days from now if I know I won't get to it tomorrow. I find this system is more flexible than one where the machine controls my schedule mechanistically. I'm totally not opposed to this functionality being in the package and accessible as an opt-in, but I'm not sure when I'll be able to get to it though as my free time is quite limited.

[cwinsnes]

For most purposes, calling org-recur-finish automatically on the tasks would be enough I think. If there has been a disruption, that specific case can be probably handled manually.