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On Di, Mai 13, 2014 at 09:40:56 +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Dominic Surano <sk8ingdom@gmail.com> writes:
> Deadlines and schedules are generally for things that require an action
> on your part, and thus will continue to show up in the agenda as
> un-acted-upon if you don't do anything. Usually, for things like
> birthdays, you just use a plain timestamp (no scheduled or deadline),
> and then you can just see it coming in the usual org agenda. I don't
> think there's any other way to give a specific warning about an upcoming
> timestamp, though...

Yeah, that seems to work better.

But still no way for something like "Married %d years ago!" like its shown in
the org-anniversary example on orgmode.org/manual/Weekly_002fdaily-agenda.html

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Josef Wolf
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