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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TODOs and birthdays
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:42:41 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnwpsp26.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ioqyhh0j.fsf@talktalk.net

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

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-29  2:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-28  8:19 TODOs and birthdays Sharon Kimble
2014-03-28 11:15 ` Ian Barton
2014-03-28 16:02   ` Sharon Kimble
2014-03-28 16:26     ` Ian Barton
2014-03-29  2:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]

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