Re: [O] TODOs and birthdays

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Sharon Kimble <address@hidden> 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