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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Adam <ahcnz@ihug.co.nz>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using properties for diary-anniversaries
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:02:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13116.1295902936@gamaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Adam <ahcnz@ihug.co.nz> of "Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:46:17 +1300." <201101250946.18308.ahcnz@ihug.co.nz>

Adam <ahcnz@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> Can I ask a more general question on this topic. Sort of, how 
> we are using Emacs or Orgmode, for Anniversaries etc. 
> 
> So, there's a forthcoming Anniversary, say a birthday. And 
> we want to be advised of this before that date.
> 

How do you want to be advised?

> Do we see it as a red highlighted Date, in Calendar, and then have 
> to look at that highlighted date to see what's coming.  Or is it 
> common to set up the anniversary / birthday to start appearing 
> in a weekly or monthly Orgmode agenda ? Not as a Deadline, 
> but as a Warning or Reminder. In which case regular Agendas 
> are needed to be outputted. 
> 

As I mentioned before, I use bbdb for contacts[fn:1] and the setup
described in sec. 10.3.1 of the Org manual for anniversaries. They then
appear in my agenda: since I use a 7-day span, I see them a week in
advance. See an earlier message in this thread for more details.
 

> It would almost be nice if some forthcoming events were outputted 
> to Messages, whenever Orgmode opened any org document. 

? Don't know what this means: the *Messages* buffer? or something
else?

> But I'm wondering how others flag forthcoming events, in Calendar 
> or in Orgmode. 
>

HTH,
Nick

Footnotes:
[fn:1] Julien Danjou is apparently working on a bbdb replacement that
he calls org-contacts, but it's still work-in-progress.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-24 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-23 14:36 Using properties for diary-anniversaries lecodesportif
2011-01-23 21:03 ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-23 23:04   ` lecodesportif
2011-01-24  1:16 ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-24  8:27   ` lecodesportif
2011-01-24 14:36     ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-24 20:46       ` Adam
2011-01-24 21:02         ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-01-25 13:17       ` lecodesportif
2011-01-25 14:53         ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-25 15:05         ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-25 15:22           ` lecodesportif

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