Today’s goals

• set up and learn org modules and org-habit
• learn how to set up recurring tasks

Set up org modules and habit

I’m using prelude so this may differ.

Add to ~/.emacs.d/personal/custom.el

(require 'org)
(require 'org-install)

(add-to-list 'org-modules 'org-habit)

Restart emacs.

Set up habit tasks

See references below for inspiration.

Mine will be:

• Daily
  • reflect on day
  • plan tomorrow
• Weekly
  • review previous week
  • plan next week

Within emacs

0. add items
1. set TODO state
2. set deadlines

• Tue 23:00 - add time due date (not just day)
• .+1d attempt to do every day but no catch ups if missed

0. C-c C-x p - open property dialog

• STYLE
• habit

0. add tags

• C-c C-q - :daily:, :monthly:, etc.

I also added tags. I am not sure I will actually use these, but for now, it’ll be something else useful to learn and search by (ideally).

Next steps

• learn tags, filtering
• figure out best way to add some custom tags
  • e.g. must-do, professional, product

References

• org manual: Repeated Tasks
• org manual page: Tracking your habits
• org habit tutorial page
• a power emacs user