On Sep 11, 2009, at 5:16 AM, Matt Lundin wrote:
Desmond Rivet <[email protected]> writes:
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
I think org-remember automatically adds a heading for purposes of
filing. Otherwise remember items could easily get lost.
Would something like this work?
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq org-remember-templates
'(
("Birthday" ?b "* %^{Title}\n %\\%(diary-remind '(diary-
date %^{Month} %^{Day} t) %^{Remind days}) %^{Brief Description}
%?" "~/pim/gtd/dates.org" "Birthdays")
)
)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I'm wondering, though, whether it wouldn't be easier to navigate to
the
birthdays heading and simply kill, yank, and edit to create a new
birthday, e.g.,
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* Birthday
%%(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 3 5 t) -14) George's birthday.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Adding George's birthday just took me only a few seconds.
Good point. How often during a day do you hear about a new birthday
you need to add? Remember is really for repetitive stuff one
does all the time. Setting up a remember template for this
tasks takes probably more time than it will ever save you.
Desmond, if you insist: Use a separate file for these, and use
the symbol `bottom' as the headline specification.
- Carsten
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