TODOs and birthdays

TODOs and birthdays

[Sharon Kimble]

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I have a document called 'organiser.org' which is mainly comprised of various
TODOs under various projects, and various NEXT under birthdays and hospital
appointments. These TODOs can be up to 4 levels in depth, and with one level 1
TODO as the project header. How can all of these TODOs be included in the agenda
please?

And for the birthday TODOs, how can I include the date of birth so that it shows
their age please? Like - 
,----
| *** TODO Winnie Poohs birthday - is 83
| SCHEDULED: <2014-12-02 Tue> AGE: <1930-12-02>
`----

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: TODOs and birthdays

[Ian Barton]

On 28/03/14 08:19, Sharon Kimble wrote:

>
> And for the birthday TODOs, how can I include the date of birth so that it shows
> their age please? Like -
> ,----
> | *** TODO Winnie Poohs birthday - is 83
> | SCHEDULED: <2014-12-02 Tue> AGE: <1930-12-02>
> `----
>

You can use the following expression for birthdays

%%(diary-anniversary 11  2 1955) Daddy is %d years old

Ian.

Re: TODOs and birthdays

[Sharon Kimble]

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Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net> writes:

> On 28/03/14 08:19, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>
>>
>> And for the birthday TODOs, how can I include the date of birth so that it shows
>> their age please? Like -
>> ,----
>> | *** TODO Winnie Poohs birthday - is 83
>> | SCHEDULED: <2014-12-02 Tue> AGE: <1930-12-02>
>> `----
>>
>
> You can use the following expression for birthdays
>
> %%(diary-anniversary 11  2 1955) Daddy is %d years old
>
> Ian.

I have this for my mums birthday

,----
| *** SCHEDULED Mums birthday, she is %d years old
| %%(diary-anniversary 02-12-1930) Daddy is %d years old
| DEADLINE: <2014-12-02 Tue 12:00> SCHEDULED: <2014-12-02 Tue>
| :END:
`----

but it isn't giving any output, and btw, that is 2nd December. So how should it
be used then please? 

Sharon.
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Re: TODOs and birthdays

[Ian Barton]

On 28/03/14 16:02, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net> writes:
>
>> On 28/03/14 08:19, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> And for the birthday TODOs, how can I include the date of birth so that it shows
>>> their age please? Like -
>>> ,----
>>> | *** TODO Winnie Poohs birthday - is 83
>>> | SCHEDULED: <2014-12-02 Tue> AGE: <1930-12-02>
>>> `----
>>>
>>
>> You can use the following expression for birthdays
>>
>> %%(diary-anniversary 11  2 1955) Daddy is %d years old
>>
>> Ian.
>
> I have this for my mums birthday
>
> ,----
> | *** SCHEDULED Mums birthday, she is %d years old
> | %%(diary-anniversary 02-12-1930) Daddy is %d years old
> | DEADLINE: <2014-12-02 Tue 12:00> SCHEDULED: <2014-12-02 Tue>
> | :END:
> `----
>
> but it isn't giving any output, and btw, that is 2nd December. So how should it
> be used then please?
>
> Sharon.
>

I am pretty sure the date needs to be in the same format as my example:

%%(diary-anniversary 2 12 1930) Mum is %d years old

Have a look at http://orgmode.org/manual/Weekly_002fdaily-agenda.html 
for more info. Also http://orgmode.org/tmp/worg/org-faq.html contains 
lots of useful hints on how to do more complicated things like repeating 
appointments.

Ian.

Re: TODOs and birthdays

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@talktalk.net> writes:

> I have a document called 'organiser.org' which is mainly comprised of various
> TODOs under various projects, and various NEXT under birthdays and hospital
> appointments. These TODOs can be up to 4 levels in depth, and with one level 1
> TODO as the project header. How can all of these TODOs be included in the agenda
> please?
>
> And for the birthday TODOs, how can I include the date of birth so that it shows
> their age please? Like - 
> ,----
> | *** TODO Winnie Poohs birthday - is 83
> | SCHEDULED: <2014-12-02 Tue> AGE: <1930-12-02>
> `----
>
> Thanks
> Sharon.

Do you use bbdb by any chance? If you do, you can put the birthday on
the person's record, as an "anniversary" field that looks like, for
example:

anniversary: 1930-12-02 birthday

It will show up properly in org agendas with the following settings
(hope I haven't forgotten anything):

(require 'bbdb-anniv)
(setq org-agenda-include-diary t)
(add-hook 'diary-list-entries-hook 'bbdb-anniv-diary-entries)

Just another option...

Eric