From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to specify birthdays?
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 09:40:56 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tx8u4frr.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20140513T001847-887@post.gmane.org
Dominic Surano <sk8ingdom@gmail.com> writes:
> Josef Wolf <jw <at> raven.inka.de> writes:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to use org-mode for birthdays. I have tried those two entries:
>>
>> * Calendar
>> ** Birthdays
>> *** Somebody
>> SCHEDULED: <1970-05-20 Mo +1y>
>> *** Somebody1
>> SCHEDULED:
>> %%(org-anniversary 1970 5 20) Somebody1 is %d years old
>>
>> The first entry is shown in the agenda for the current day as:
>>
>> Calendar: Sched.358x: Somebody
>>
>> I find this a bit strange. I want a reminder a couple of days before the
>> event. But I don't want an everday reminder of how days have gone past the
>> last event.
>>
>> The second entry doesn't appear at all in the agenda.
>>
>> Any ideas what I am missing here?
>>
>
> 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>
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...
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-13 1:38 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 [this message]
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
2014-05-12 22:54 ` Erik Iverson
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