From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Using properties for diary-anniversaries Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:02:16 -0500 Message-ID: <13116.1295902936@gamaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> References: <1295793360.20637.1416756473@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1295857674.26398.1416871253@webmail.messagingengine.com> <26027.1295879818@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> <201101250946.18308.ahcnz@ihug.co.nz> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43240 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhTYP-0004Yu-Ur for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:02:26 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhTYO-0005nu-3K for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:02:25 -0500 Received: from g6t0184.atlanta.hp.com ([15.193.32.61]:13454) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhTYN-0005no-VT for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:02:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message from Adam of "Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:46:17 +1300." <201101250946.18308.ahcnz@ihug.co.nz> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Adam Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Adam 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.