Re: Yearly repeats on the agenda

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

Brian van den Broek <brian.van.den.broek@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17 April 2012 15:11, SW <sabrewolfy@gmail.com> wrote:
> > SW <sabrewolfy <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> > > 2) I just added a bunch of holidays / days of observation to my system.
> >> Your use case is better accomplished via org-anniversary:
> >> > >
> >> > > (org-anniversary 2011 01 01) New Year's Day
> >> > Emailing before first coffee is a bad idea. I left out some syntax. See
> >> http://orgmode.org/manual/Weekly_002fdaily-agenda.html.
> >
> >> Thanks, didn't know about those, but that's exactly what I need. There is *so*
> >> much to org-mode and always another section to the manual ... :)
> >
> > FWIF 1: Anniversaries in the agenda don't have tags now. The tag I provided
> > appears in the headline only and does not appear in the agenda. Adding :TAG:
> > didn't solve this.
> >
> > FWIW 2: The CATEGORY example included in the link above resulted in the category
> > appearing next to some other entries in the agenda as well. Replacing it with
> > :CATEGORY: instead of #+CATEGORY: solved this.
> 
> I've not tagged any of my holidays and days of observance.
> 
> The #+CATEGORY issue will arise in other regards as well. It was a
> first pass at changing categories within an org file before the
> general category property mechanism was included. I don't recall if
> "#+CATEGORY" has been deprecated, but I've treated it as such and been
> much happier than when I was struggling with it.

I'm still stuck in the past, using #+CATEGORY: instead of properties,
but fwiw I haven't had any problem. Like Brian, I'm not tagging these
things.

Nick