From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Advance notice of birthdays in org-mode via org-contacts
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 22:05:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfyrl4fg.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAL9aZkt0zNR-zXc-jhtcP-O6Ry4w_-LT40N974jOjwjDsJEncA@mail.gmail.com
Daryl Manning <dwm+orgmode@wakatara.com> writes:
> 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.
>
I use bbdb, not org-contacts, and I have this in one of my agenda files:
* Anniversaries
:PROPERTIES:
:CATEGORY: Anniv
:ID: 409062f6-6cb1-467f-b192-2dfcb7b384ca
:END:
%%(org-bbdb-anniversaries-future)
That gives me the default 7 days of warning, but you can pass an
argument to it to specify the number of days of warning.
The function is fairly generic, so it should be possible to adapt it
to org-contacts with some modifications.
--
Nick
"There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-28 2:05 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
2019-05-28 2:05 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
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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