From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to specify birthdays?
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 13:15:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uq5eh2j.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20140513070751.GC18283@raven.inka.de
Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> writes:
> On Mo, Mai 12, 2014 at 10:22:02 +0000, Dominic Surano wrote:
>> Make it a deadline instead of a SCHEDULED item and set it to the current
>> year with the +1y modifier. That way it will only come up a few days before
>> it's due.
>>
>> * Calendar
>> ** Birthdays
>> *** Somebody
>> DEADLINE: <2014-05-12 Tue +1y>
>
> By setting it to the current year, I'd loose track of the original year when
> the event happened.
> I _really_ like the idea of "XXX is %d years old", like it is shown in the
> org-anniversary example!
I don't use the diary at all: I keep anniversaries in BBDB.
See
(info "(org) weekly/daily agenda")
for details.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-13 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-12 21:42 How to specify birthdays? Josef Wolf
2014-05-12 22:22 ` Dominic Surano
2014-05-13 1:40 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-13 7:24 ` Josef Wolf
2014-05-13 9:07 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-13 11:17 ` Josef Wolf
2014-05-13 13:32 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-13 7:07 ` Josef Wolf
2014-05-13 17:15 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2014-05-12 22:54 ` Erik Iverson
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