Re: Using properties for diary-anniversaries

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Adam <ahcnz@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> Can I ask a more general question on this topic. Sort of, how 
> we are using Emacs or Orgmode, for Anniversaries etc. 
> 
> So, there's a forthcoming Anniversary, say a birthday. And 
> we want to be advised of this before that date.
> 

How do you want to be advised?

> Do we see it as a red highlighted Date, in Calendar, and then have 
> to look at that highlighted date to see what's coming.  Or is it 
> common to set up the anniversary / birthday to start appearing 
> in a weekly or monthly Orgmode agenda ? Not as a Deadline, 
> but as a Warning or Reminder. In which case regular Agendas 
> are needed to be outputted. 
> 

As I mentioned before, I use bbdb for contacts[fn:1] and the setup
described in sec. 10.3.1 of the Org manual for anniversaries. They then
appear in my agenda: since I use a 7-day span, I see them a week in
advance. See an earlier message in this thread for more details.
 

> It would almost be nice if some forthcoming events were outputted 
> to Messages, whenever Orgmode opened any org document. 

? Don't know what this means: the *Messages* buffer? or something
else?

> But I'm wondering how others flag forthcoming events, in Calendar 
> or in Orgmode. 
>

HTH,
Nick

Footnotes:
[fn:1] Julien Danjou is apparently working on a bbdb replacement that
he calls org-contacts, but it's still work-in-progress.