Adam <ah...@ihug.co.nz> wrote: > Can I ask a more general question on this topic. Sort of, how > we are using Emacs or Orgmode, for Anniversaries etc. > > So, there's a forthcoming Anniversary, say a birthday. And > we want to be advised of this before that date. >
How do you want to be advised? > Do we see it as a red highlighted Date, in Calendar, and then have > to look at that highlighted date to see what's coming. Or is it > common to set up the anniversary / birthday to start appearing > in a weekly or monthly Orgmode agenda ? Not as a Deadline, > but as a Warning or Reminder. In which case regular Agendas > are needed to be outputted. > As I mentioned before, I use bbdb for contacts[fn:1] and the setup described in sec. 10.3.1 of the Org manual for anniversaries. They then appear in my agenda: since I use a 7-day span, I see them a week in advance. See an earlier message in this thread for more details. > It would almost be nice if some forthcoming events were outputted > to Messages, whenever Orgmode opened any org document. ? Don't know what this means: the *Messages* buffer? or something else? > But I'm wondering how others flag forthcoming events, in Calendar > or in Orgmode. > HTH, Nick Footnotes: [fn:1] Julien Danjou is apparently working on a bbdb replacement that he calls org-contacts, but it's still work-in-progress. _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
