RE: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: planner - cyclic tasks - diary and schedule

[Phillip Lord]

René wrote:
> Phillip Lord <Phillip.Lord <at> newcastle.ac.uk> writes:
> 
>  - or rather with planner-appt? with task-based or schedule-based
> appointments? 
> 
> Besides, what are the pros and cons in using the regular Emacs' diary
> or planner-cyclic?
> 
> Did anyone already write a set of guidelines about which way to go
> and why?  I would very much like to have a look at it.
> 
> Before using Planner I relied on a regular diary.  

What? Like a paper one, you mean? 


> Now I've switched
> to planner-cyclic along with planner-appt in the "* Schedule"
> section, but I'm still confused about whether I am missing features
> that would be available if I were using regular diaries.


I finally realised why planner-diary.el was failing for me, at
least. It says that it looks in diary-file for it's info, but
actually, it looks in diary-file as it was. It has a form
like this

(defcustom planner-diary-file diary-file)

so if you do 

(require 'planner-diary)

(setq diary-file "~/documents/diary")

things will not behave as expected. 

Well this is a step forward at least. All I need now, is to
get it to respond to block dates, and I'll be nearly there. 

Cheers

Phil