From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
Daryl Manning <dwm+orgmode@wakatara.com>
Subject: Re: Advance notice of birthdays in org-mode via org-contacts
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 20:17:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zpvn4no.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKuG=vu=YRjmMWv-z5Wwprxobw-GFe9SHAyEtxQHRAMvYF6oXg@mail.gmail.com>
On 2019-05-27, at 13:25, Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 May 2019, 16:12 Daryl Manning, <dwm+orgmode@wakatara.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to come up with a better way to give myself advanced notice on
>> some peoples' birthdays coming up.
>>
>> Right now, I use the following in a `cal.org` file to give me notice in
>> agenda that birthdays are coming up:
>>
>> ```
>> * BDays
>> :bday:
>> %%(org-contacts-anniversaries "BIRTHDAY")
>> ```
>>
>> The generally feeds off a `contacts.org` entry of the nature:
>>
>> ```
>> *** John Wick
>> :PROPERTIES:
>> :EMAIL: therealjdub@notthepuppy.com
>> :BIRTHDAY: 1975-06-06
>> :END:
>> ```
>>
>> What I'd like is to get, on virtually all birthdays , a week's notice
>> through due soon (which I'll sort out in org-super-agenda in the view).
>> Alternatively, is there a nicer way to tag or otherwise note some birthdays
>> in the `contacts.org` so that I could note special people (close friends,
>> family, etc) where I could set a specific advanced notice period so that I
>> have time to do something special for them etc?
>>
>> Would love to hear peoples' approaches to this. In general, if I'm not
>> looking out 2 weeks ahead (I spend most time in the day view), I can get
>> surprised.
>>
>> thanks!
>> Daryl.
>>
>
> Hi Daryl,
>
> I have a TODO item for each of my family's birthdays, with a deadline for
> the birthday day and a repeater of +1y. Then Org Agenda automatically gives
> me about two weeks' notice of that approaching.
>
> There's no integration here with another contacts system, but I find that
> this works well for me.
Almost same here, only that I don't mark those "TODO", but just make
a headline with an (active) timestamp.
Hth,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-27 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-26 15:10 Advance notice of birthdays in org-mode via org-contacts Daryl Manning
2019-05-27 11:25 ` Neil Jerram
2019-05-27 18:17 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2019-05-28 2:05 ` Nick Dokos
2019-05-28 2:34 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-05-28 6:38 ` Alan Schmitt
2019-05-28 16:31 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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