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[Orgmode] diary-remind, and org-agenda, and remember
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Desmond Rivet |
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[Orgmode] diary-remind, and org-agenda, and remember |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:15:46 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
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.
- [Orgmode] diary-remind, and org-agenda, and remember,
Desmond Rivet <=