Hi all, I'm trying to implement a quick and easy way to add birthday reminder functionality to my orgmode setup. For this purpose, I've been using sexp's like this (for example):
%%(diary-remind '(diary-date 9 20 t) -14) John's birthday.. When these appear in an org file, I get a reminder in the agenda timeline view everyday for 14 days preceding the date in question. Seems to work okay. I have, however, been noticing some weirdness. Or maybe I just misunderstand how this all works. For example, this will work in an org file (the reminders show up on the agenda): * Birthdays %%(diary-remind '(diary-date 1 6 t) -14) Suzie's birthday. %%(diary-remind '(diary-date 11 5 t) -14) John's birthday. But this will *not* work in an org file (the reminders do *not* show up): * Birthdays ** %%(diary-remind '(diary-date 1 6 t) -14) Suzie's birthday. ** %%(diary-remind '(diary-date 11 5 t) -14) John's birthday. I'm using the latest orgmode from the repository. Anyway, this normally wouldn't be too much of a bother except that I'm experimenting with org-remember to add the dates, and this seems to have its own problems. (I was recently having trouble with using '%' signs in the org remember templates, but this particular problem has been solved. Thanks!) For example, when I have this in my dates.org file: * Birthday %%(diary-remind '(diary-date 1 6 t) -14) Suzie's birthday. %%(diary-remind '(diary-date 11 5 t) -14) John's birthday. with a remember template that looks like this: (setq org-remember-templates '( ("Birthday" ?b "%\\%(diary-remind '(diary-date %^{Month} %^{Day} t) -%^{Remind days}) %^{Brief Description}%?" "~/pim/gtd/dates.org" "Birthdays") ) ) then I get this when I finish with C-c C-c: * Birthdays %%(diary-remind '(diary-date 1 6 t) -14) Suzie's birthday. %%(diary-remind '(diary-date 11 5 t) -14) John's birthday. ** Thu Sep 10 19:06:55 2009 (%%(diary-remind '(diary-date 12 12 t) -12) 12) %%(diary-remind '(diary-date 12 12 t) -12) 12 This is not what I was expecting. I'm not sure what's happening there. Of course, if I set up my dates.org to look like this: * Birthdays ** %%(diary-remind '(diary-date 1 6 t) -14) Suzie's birthday. ** %%(diary-remind '(diary-date 11 5 t) -14) John's birthday. and set up my remember template like this: (setq org-remember-templates '( ("Birthday" ?b "* %\\%(diary-remind '(diary-date %^{Month} %^{Day} t) -%^{Remind days}) %^{Brief Description}%?" "~/pim/gtd/dates.org" "Birthdays") ) ) I get this in dates.org when I press C-c C-c: * Birthdays ** %%(diary-remind '(diary-date 1 6 t) -14) Suzie's birthday. ** %%(diary-remind '(diary-date 11 5 t) -14) John's birthday. ** %%(diary-remind '(diary-date 12 12 t) -12) New birthday Which would be okay except that, as noted above, org agenda doesn't seem to pick up on these kinds of dates when they're in a heading. Perhaps remember isn't the right tool for this? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance! -- Desmond Rivet Pain is weakness leaving the body. _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode