From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Yearly repeats on the agenda Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:28:57 -0400 Message-ID: <3423.1334672937@alphaville> References: Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49306) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SK9P5-0002rq-5B for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:29:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SK9Ox-0004IK-20 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:29:10 -0400 Received: from g4t0014.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.17]:10150) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SK9Ow-0004I5-SK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:29:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Brian van den Broek of "Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:00:33 +0200." 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: Brian van den Broek Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, SW Brian van den Broek wrote: > On 17 April 2012 15:11, SW wrote: > > SW 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