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From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-bbdb-birthday reminder
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:55:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tf89qh8.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8ufdqte.fsf@free.fr> (Julien Cubizolles's message of "Wed, 29 Jul 2015 15:41:17 +0200")

Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:

> I'm using org-bbdb-anniversaries to use the bbdb-anniversaries. At the
> moment, it only displays the birthdays of the day. How can I generate a
> reminder for a few days before the actual birthday ?

This is not possible at the moment with bbdb-anniversaries. 

For advanced reminders of birthdays and the like, you could use a
diary-sexp:

%%(diary-remind '(org-anniversary 1996 8 20) -7) Someone turns %s

Best,
Matt

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-12 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-29 13:41 org-bbdb-birthday reminder Julien Cubizolles
2015-08-12 20:55 ` Matt Lundin [this message]
2015-08-13  1:36   ` Nick Dokos
2015-08-13  6:35   ` Julien Cubizolles
2015-08-13 13:07     ` Matt Lundin
2015-08-14  0:26       ` Nick Dokos
2015-08-14 14:30         ` Matt Lundin
2015-08-15 18:24           ` Julien Cubizolles
2015-08-16 17:25             ` [PATCH] Allow early-warning anniversaries in agends [was: Re: org-bbdb-birthday reminder] Nick Dokos
2015-08-17  9:16               ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-17 16:42                 ` Nick Dokos
2015-08-17 16:57                   ` Rasmus
2015-08-17 17:35                     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-10-06 15:11                       ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-07 19:58                         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-10-13 15:54                           ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-14 23:21                           ` Nick Dokos
2015-08-16 13:46           ` org-bbdb-birthday reminder Bastien Guerry

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