From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Cubizolles Subject: Re: org-bbdb-birthday reminder Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 08:35:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87wpwzlmpn.fsf@free.fr> References: <87a8ufdqte.fsf@free.fr> <871tf89qh8.fsf@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38462) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPm7H-0004r7-SA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2015 02:35:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPm7D-0002DU-Sh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2015 02:35:55 -0400 Received: from smtp2-g21.free.fr ([2a01:e0c:1:1599::11]:42707) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPm7D-0002DH-M7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2015 02:35:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <871tf89qh8.fsf@fastmail.fm> (Matt Lundin's message of "Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:55:15 -0500") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Matt Lundin Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Matt Lundin writes: > This is not possible at the moment with bbdb-anniversaries. I thought someone would have felt the need to have this list of upcoming birthdays. I'm guess not so many of you always end up rushing to buy presents in the last days the way I dO. > 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 I'll give it a try thanks, but you need one line per birthday you want to be reminded of. It would be much easier to have just a field in bbdb to select these contatcs. Julien.