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Re: [O] How to specify birthdays?
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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Re: [O] How to specify birthdays? |
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Tue, 13 May 2014 09:40:56 +0800 |
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Dominic Surano <address@hidden> writes:
> Josef Wolf <jw <at> raven.inka.de> writes:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to use org-mode for birthdays. I have tried those two entries:
>>
>> * Calendar
>> ** Birthdays
>> *** Somebody
>> SCHEDULED: <1970-05-20 Mo +1y>
>> *** Somebody1
>> SCHEDULED:
>> %%(org-anniversary 1970 5 20) Somebody1 is %d years old
>>
>> The first entry is shown in the agenda for the current day as:
>>
>> Calendar: Sched.358x: Somebody
>>
>> I find this a bit strange. I want a reminder a couple of days before the
>> event. But I don't want an everday reminder of how days have gone past the
>> last event.
>>
>> The second entry doesn't appear at all in the agenda.
>>
>> Any ideas what I am missing here?
>>
>
> Make it a deadline instead of a SCHEDULED item and set it to the current
> year with the +1y modifier. That way it will only come up a few days before
> it's due.
>
> * Calendar
> ** Birthdays
> *** Somebody
> DEADLINE: <2014-05-12 Tue +1y>
Deadlines and schedules are generally for things that require an action
on your part, and thus will continue to show up in the agenda as
un-acted-upon if you don't do anything. Usually, for things like
birthdays, you just use a plain timestamp (no scheduled or deadline),
and then you can just see it coming in the usual org agenda. I don't
think there's any other way to give a specific warning about an upcoming
timestamp, though...
Eric
Re: [O] How to specify birthdays?, Josef Wolf, 2014/05/13
Re: [O] How to specify birthdays?, Erik Iverson, 2014/05/12