From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daryl Manning Subject: Advance notice of birthdays in org-mode via org-contacts Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 23:10:30 +0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000020ac280589cbd660" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60447) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hUunT-0006VI-5U for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 26 May 2019 11:10:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hUunR-0004h5-Ln for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 26 May 2019 11:10:50 -0400 Received: from mail-yb1-xb31.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::b31]:33581) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hUunR-0004fy-0y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 26 May 2019 11:10:49 -0400 Received: by mail-yb1-xb31.google.com with SMTP id w127so3761925yba.0 for ; Sun, 26 May 2019 08:10:48 -0700 (PDT) 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" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org --00000000000020ac280589cbd660 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I'm trying to come up with a better way to give myself advanced notice on some peoples' birthdays coming up. Right now, I use the following in a `cal.org` file to give me notice in agenda that birthdays are coming up: ``` * BDays :bday: %%(org-contacts-anniversaries "BIRTHDAY") ``` The generally feeds off a `contacts.org` entry of the nature: ``` *** John Wick :PROPERTIES: :EMAIL: therealjdub@notthepuppy.com :BIRTHDAY: 1975-06-06 :END: ``` What I'd like is to get, on virtually all birthdays , a week's notice through due soon (which I'll sort out in org-super-agenda in the view). Alternatively, is there a nicer way to tag or otherwise note some birthdays in the `contacts.org` so that I could note special people (close friends, family, etc) where I could set a specific advanced notice period so that I have time to do something special for them etc? Would love to hear peoples' approaches to this. In general, if I'm not looking out 2 weeks ahead (I spend most time in the day view), I can get surprised. thanks! Daryl. --00000000000020ac280589cbd660 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I'm trying to come up with a better way to give m= yself advanced notice on some peoples' birthdays coming up.=C2=A0
=

Right now, I use the following in a `cal.org` file to give me notice in agenda that birthdays are c= oming up:

```
* BDays =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 :bday:
%%(org-contacts-anniversaries "BIRTHDAY")=
```

The generally feeds off a `contacts.org` entry of the nature:
<= br>
```
*** John Wick=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0= =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0
:PROPERTIES:
:EMAIL: therealjdub@notthepuppy.com
:BIRTHDAY: 1975-06-06
:END:<= /div>
```

What I'd like is to get, on virt= ually all birthdays , a week's notice through due soon (which I'll = sort out in org-super-agenda in the view). Alternatively, is there a nicer = way to tag or otherwise note some birthdays in the `contacts.org` so that I could note special people (close frien= ds, family, etc) where I could set a specific advanced notice period so tha= t I have time to do something special for them etc?

Would love to hear peoples' approaches to this. In general, if I'= m not looking out 2 weeks ahead (I spend most time in the day view), I can = get surprised.

thanks!
Daryl.
=


--00000000000020ac280589cbd660-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Jerram Subject: Re: Advance notice of birthdays in org-mode via org-contacts Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 12:25:21 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000009a0dc00589dcce2e" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35287) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVDl5-0007Tb-6y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 07:25:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVDl4-0004wY-22 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 07:25:39 -0400 Received: from mail-lf1-x132.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::132]:38823) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVDl3-0004vO-RV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 07:25:38 -0400 Received: by mail-lf1-x132.google.com with SMTP id b11so5381269lfa.5 for ; Mon, 27 May 2019 04:25:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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" To: Daryl Manning Cc: Org Mode List --0000000000009a0dc00589dcce2e Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Sun, 26 May 2019, 16:12 Daryl Manning, wrote: > I'm trying to come up with a better way to give myself advanced notice on > some peoples' birthdays coming up. > > Right now, I use the following in a `cal.org` file to give me notice in > agenda that birthdays are coming up: > > ``` > * BDays > :bday: > %%(org-contacts-anniversaries "BIRTHDAY") > ``` > > The generally feeds off a `contacts.org` entry of the nature: > > ``` > *** John Wick > :PROPERTIES: > :EMAIL: therealjdub@notthepuppy.com > :BIRTHDAY: 1975-06-06 > :END: > ``` > > What I'd like is to get, on virtually all birthdays , a week's notice > through due soon (which I'll sort out in org-super-agenda in the view). > Alternatively, is there a nicer way to tag or otherwise note some birthdays > in the `contacts.org` so that I could note special people (close friends, > family, etc) where I could set a specific advanced notice period so that I > have time to do something special for them etc? > > Would love to hear peoples' approaches to this. In general, if I'm not > looking out 2 weeks ahead (I spend most time in the day view), I can get > surprised. > > thanks! > Daryl. > Hi Daryl, I have a TODO item for each of my family's birthdays, with a deadline for the birthday day and a repeater of +1y. Then Org Agenda automatically gives me about two weeks' notice of that approaching. There's no integration here with another contacts system, but I find that this works well for me. Best wishes, Neil --0000000000009a0dc00589dcce2e Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Sun, 26 May 2019, 16:12 Daryl Manning, <dwm+orgm= ode@wakatara.com> wrote:
I'm trying to come up with a better way to give myse= lf advanced notice on some peoples' birthdays coming up.=C2=A0

Right now, I use the following in a `cal.org` file to = give me notice in agenda that birthdays are coming up:

=
```
* BDays =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0= =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 :bday:
%%(org-co= ntacts-anniversaries "BIRTHDAY")
```

The generally feeds off a `contacts.org` entry of the natur= e:

```
*** John Wick=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0= =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0=C2=A0
:PROPERTIES:
:EMAIL: the= realjdub@notthepuppy.com
:BIRTHDAY: 1975-06-06
:END:
``= `

What I'd like is to get, on virtually all bi= rthdays , a week's notice through due soon (which I'll sort out in = org-super-agenda in the view). Alternatively, is there a nicer way to tag o= r otherwise note some birthdays in the `contacts.org` so that I co= uld note special people (close friends, family, etc) where I could set a sp= ecific advanced notice period so that I have time to do something special f= or them etc?

Would love to hear peoples' appro= aches to this. In general, if I'm not looking out 2 weeks ahead (I spen= d most time in the day view), I can get surprised.

thanks!
Daryl.

Hi Daryl,

I have a TODO item for each of my family's birthdays= , with a deadline for the birthday day and a repeater of +1y. Then Org Agen= da automatically gives me about two weeks' notice of that approaching.<= /div>

There's no integrati= on here with another contacts system, but I find that this works well for m= e.

Best wishes,
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 Neil

--0000000000009a0dc00589dcce2e-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcin Borkowski Subject: Re: Advance notice of birthdays in org-mode via org-contacts Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 20:17:15 +0200 Message-ID: <875zpvn4no.fsf@mbork.pl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33462) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVKDJ-0008ME-7c for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 14:19:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVKDI-0001u9-3x for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 14:19:13 -0400 Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:57228) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVKDH-0001rZ-UV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 14:19:12 -0400 In-reply-to: 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" To: Neil Jerram Cc: Org Mode List , Daryl Manning On 2019-05-27, at 13:25, Neil Jerram wrote: > On Sun, 26 May 2019, 16:12 Daryl Manning, wrote: > >> I'm trying to come up with a better way to give myself advanced notice on >> some peoples' birthdays coming up. >> >> Right now, I use the following in a `cal.org` file to give me notice in >> agenda that birthdays are coming up: >> >> ``` >> * BDays >> :bday: >> %%(org-contacts-anniversaries "BIRTHDAY") >> ``` >> >> The generally feeds off a `contacts.org` entry of the nature: >> >> ``` >> *** John Wick >> :PROPERTIES: >> :EMAIL: therealjdub@notthepuppy.com >> :BIRTHDAY: 1975-06-06 >> :END: >> ``` >> >> What I'd like is to get, on virtually all birthdays , a week's notice >> through due soon (which I'll sort out in org-super-agenda in the view). >> Alternatively, is there a nicer way to tag or otherwise note some birthdays >> in the `contacts.org` so that I could note special people (close friends, >> family, etc) where I could set a specific advanced notice period so that I >> have time to do something special for them etc? >> >> Would love to hear peoples' approaches to this. In general, if I'm not >> looking out 2 weeks ahead (I spend most time in the day view), I can get >> surprised. >> >> thanks! >> Daryl. >> > > Hi Daryl, > > I have a TODO item for each of my family's birthdays, with a deadline for > the birthday day and a repeater of +1y. Then Org Agenda automatically gives > me about two weeks' notice of that approaching. > > There's no integration here with another contacts system, but I find that > this works well for me. Almost same here, only that I don't mark those "TODO", but just make a headline with an (active) timestamp. Hth, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Advance notice of birthdays in org-mode via org-contacts Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 22:05:07 -0400 Message-ID: <87lfyrl4fg.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54940) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVRUN-0005XL-9Y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 22:05:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVRUM-0003Lz-7Q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 22:05:19 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=49602 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVRUM-0003GT-1M for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 22:05:18 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hVRUJ-00130e-SC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 04:05:15 +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" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Daryl Manning writes: > I'm trying to come up with a better way to give myself advanced notice on some peoples' birthdays coming up.  > > Right now, I use the following in a `cal.org` file to give me notice in agenda that birthdays are coming up: > > ``` > * BDays                                                                         :bday: > %%(org-contacts-anniversaries "BIRTHDAY") > ``` > > The generally feeds off a `contacts.org` entry of the nature: > > ``` > *** John Wick                                                   > :PROPERTIES: > :EMAIL: therealjdub@notthepuppy.com > :BIRTHDAY: 1975-06-06 > :END: > ``` > > What I'd like is to get, on virtually all birthdays , a week's notice through due soon (which I'll sort out in org-super-agenda in the view). Alternatively, is there a nicer way to tag or > otherwise note some birthdays in the `contacts.org` so that I could note special people (close friends, family, etc) where I could set a specific advanced notice period so that I have time > to do something special for them etc? > > Would love to hear peoples' approaches to this. In general, if I'm not looking out 2 weeks ahead (I spend most time in the day view), I can get surprised. > I use bbdb, not org-contacts, and I have this in one of my agenda files: * Anniversaries :PROPERTIES: :CATEGORY: Anniv :ID: 409062f6-6cb1-467f-b192-2dfcb7b384ca :END: %%(org-bbdb-anniversaries-future) That gives me the default 7 days of warning, but you can pass an argument to it to specify the number of days of warning. The function is fairly generic, so it should be possible to adapt it to org-contacts with some modifications. -- Nick "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Abrahamsen Subject: Re: Advance notice of birthdays in org-mode via org-contacts Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 19:34:55 -0700 Message-ID: <877eab9ui8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87lfyrl4fg.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58676) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVRxB-0002kc-Ne for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 22:35:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVRxA-00027M-Qv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 22:35:05 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=46624 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVRxA-00026s-L0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 22:35:04 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hVRx8-000SAv-T5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 04:35:02 +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" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Nick Dokos writes: > Daryl Manning writes: > >> I'm trying to come up with a better way to give myself advanced >> notice on some peoples' birthdays coming up.  And (shameless plug) if you're using EBDB, you can set both `ebdb-use-diary' and `org-agenda-include-diary' to t, and anniversaries will show in the agenda. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Schmitt Subject: Re: Advance notice of birthdays in org-mode via org-contacts Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 08:38:29 +0200 Message-ID: <875zpv84nu.fsf@polytechnique.org> References: <87lfyrl4fg.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> <877eab9ui8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34556) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVVku-0001bj-7w for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 02:38:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVVks-0008F6-Dx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 02:38:40 -0400 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.104]:39143) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVVkq-0008BJ-CG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 02:38:37 -0400 In-reply-to: <877eab9ui8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> 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" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi Eric, On 2019-05-28 04:34, Eric Abrahamsen writes: > And (shameless plug) if you're using EBDB, you can set both > `ebdb-use-diary' and `org-agenda-include-diary' to t, and > anniversaries > will show in the agenda. Thank you for the plug, I've been wanting to look at EBDB for a while. I have a few questions: is it easy to migrate data from BBDB? Can you have org links to EBDB records? Does it work with mu4e for address completion? Thanks, Alan --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEE6lXof/BsSVW56ZmGBA0KO07S5ccFAlzs12YACgkQBA0KO07S 5cdRcwgAh19FnRDI/L/4Fyq74nRl/E6dvIUEtD8ThwXNJ/WzOTpj/APstQzUOoBy dNS2F6thNgP+LKEc4/o0H5ppz3FU02KLkFAFEmeer3FrDfsXeXipa5P3JCc9Fx+t 5aM08KAxC4pr7eUYEKdaqD7Cv+61l2hTmXp+dRwQ0aeMHS/s3oR1Xu+8Lo6hryGn NYFGRnayjapJFk2HikmEApT23v8sJiGvE8MkZ6nMyBY1fpqyuBEOcw91nYL7sY5b Qt7mMhQiShoXvb6fCJa/58mu5LW9vlkUB2+MFZ8ED1UZjr6e6n4nPt/4nPjqe+9x BWw9tF1VviFjnFOfObJbAekTKiD6dQ== =uaVo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Abrahamsen Subject: Re: Advance notice of birthdays in org-mode via org-contacts Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 09:31:22 -0700 Message-ID: <87tvde8rs5.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87lfyrl4fg.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> <877eab9ui8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <875zpv84nu.fsf@polytechnique.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54883) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVf2s-0000Mx-NU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 12:33:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVf2e-00042c-B9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 12:33:41 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=53966 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVf2c-00038f-Mk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 12:33:35 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hVf0c-000deR-Jy for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 18:31:30 +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" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Alan Schmitt writes: > Hi Eric, > > On 2019-05-28 04:34, Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> And (shameless plug) if you're using EBDB, you can set both >> `ebdb-use-diary' and `org-agenda-include-diary' to t, and >> anniversaries >> will show in the agenda. > > Thank you for the plug, I've been wanting to look at EBDB for a while. > I > have a few questions: is it easy to migrate data from BBDB? Can you > have > org links to EBDB records? Does it work with mu4e for address > completion? Glad you're considering it! EBDB will migrate automatically from versions 2 or 3 of BBDB (it is slow, but you only have to do it once), you just have to have the `bbdb-file' variable pointing to a valid BBDB file, then call `ebdb-open'. It supports org links, either to single records, or to record searches: following a link like "ebdb:mail/@gnu.org" will search for all records with Gnu email addresses. You can also tag your records with org tags, and pop up an EBDB window alongside a tag agenda search, for instance. In theory it supports mu4e, but I think you would be the first user, if you tried it, so beware! :) Eric