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From: Benjamin Andresen <benny@in-ulm.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Date calculations
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:11:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5qctxn8.fsf@in-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6DC4A9FE-BA1F-4106-87D7-29985BF09116@jumans.net> (fredrik@jumans.net's message of "Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:47:12 +0100")

Hey,

Fredrik <fredrik@jumans.net> writes:

> I'm using a normal org-file as my contact register so I easier can
> link tasks to a specific person. I have also added events as birthdays
> to each contact but is there some way I can make them show up in the
> agenda with some yearly calculations?
>
> For example a simple birthday reminder can look like this:
>
> * <2006-12-30 ++1y> Happy Birthday!
>
> Is there some clever way I can add a date calculation to it when it
> shows up in the agenda?
>
> * <2006-12-30 ++1y> Happy Birthday %d years!

I used to do it the way it was done in the manual:

(info "(org)Weekly/daily agenda")
under Calendar/Diary integration

     %%(diary-anniversary 14  5 1956) Arthur Dent is %d years old

I now use bbdb which also works good and has gnus integration which is
important to me.


> Regards,
>
> Fredrik

br,
benny

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-30 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-30 12:47 Date calculations Fredrik
2009-12-30 13:08 ` Fredrik
2009-12-30 13:09 ` Ian Barton
2009-12-30 13:11 ` Benjamin Andresen [this message]
2009-12-30 14:21   ` Benjamin Andresen
2009-12-30 15:05     ` Memnon Anon
2009-12-30 15:27     ` Carsten Dominik
2009-12-30 15:43       ` Benjamin Andresen
2009-12-30 15:58         ` Memnon Anon
2009-12-30 16:08           ` Benjamin Andresen
2009-12-30 19:21             ` Carsten Dominik
2009-12-30 19:51               ` Benjamin Andresen
2009-12-30 22:41                 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-12-30 20:37               ` Memnon Anon
2009-12-30 22:46                 ` Ben Finney
2010-01-01 10:32                 ` Carsten Dominik

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