Hi,
This is branched off from the previous thread "FR: date marking in
calendar". I got the marking working now with the help from Bastien. My
intention was to mark calendar with important "hard schedule"
(appointments) that can not be conflicted with. However, I could not do
it with current org-diary function, as detailed in the following:
1. Apparently, I can not use %%(org-diary :scheduled), as a lot of
"SCHEDULED" items are just "softly scheduled". I would like to do those
things at specified time, but do not HAVE TO do them.
2. If I use %%(org-diary :timestamp), and use plain active time stamps
for all my appointments, all my appointments will be marked, however,
entries like this will get marked too:
***** Payday
<2007-11-02 Fri +2w>
The above entry is just a reminder so I will know it is a payday by
checking today's agenda. But this does not require any action and hence
is not an appointment. I can not change the above plain time stamp to
"SCHEDULED" because that will make it show up as a "past due" task in my
everyday agenda.
3. My way of indicating that a task is an appointment is as following:
* TODO See Doctor
Smith :APPOINT:
SCHEDULED: <2008-03-05 Wed 09:00>
I use a tag to indicate an appointment. This makes it easy to search and
list all appointments and clears the ambiguity around "what exactly is
an appointment". Also I use "SCHEDULED" instead of a plain time stamp
because if for some reason I missed an appointment (say because I took a
3-week vacation), I want the appointment to show up in my agenda as a
past due task instead of being silently passed by.
4. I am reluctant to put my appointments in the diary file, as I want to
have all my planning information in org files. Org file entries provide
much more than diary entries. For example, I can group my health related
appointments in a sub-tree. I can archive my previous dental
appointments so I know when I should see my dentist next time, and etc.
It seems if we can enhance (org-diary) function a little bit by doing
the following, my problem can be solved:
1. add options to limit search to "TODO" items only (I can compromise by
using plain time stamp in my appointments)
2. and/or, add options to limit search to items with certain tags (my
appointment set up will work very well with this option)
Any comments? Thank you very much.
Wanrong
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