Re: [O] Advance notice of birthdays in org-mode via org-contacts

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2019-05-27, at 13:25, Neil Jerram <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, 26 May 2019, 16:12 Daryl Manning, <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to come up with a better way to give myself advanced notice on
>> some peoples' birthdays coming up.
>>
>> Right now, I use the following in a `cal.org` file to give me notice in
>> agenda that birthdays are coming up:
>>
>> ```
>> * BDays
>>       :bday:
>> %%(org-contacts-anniversaries "BIRTHDAY")
>> ```
>>
>> The generally feeds off a `contacts.org` entry of the nature:
>>
>> ```
>> *** John Wick
>> :PROPERTIES:
>> :EMAIL: address@hidden
>> :BIRTHDAY: 1975-06-06
>> :END:
>> ```
>>
>> What I'd like is to get, on virtually all birthdays , a week's notice
>> through due soon (which I'll sort out in org-super-agenda in the view).
>> Alternatively, is there a nicer way to tag or otherwise note some birthdays
>> in the `contacts.org` so that I could note special people (close friends,
>> family, etc) where I could set a specific advanced notice period so that I
>> have time to do something special for them etc?
>>
>> Would love to hear peoples' approaches to this. In general, if I'm not
>> looking out 2 weeks ahead (I spend most time in the day view), I can get
>> surprised.
>>
>> thanks!
>> Daryl.
>>
>
> Hi Daryl,
>
> I have a TODO item for each of my family's birthdays, with a deadline for
> the birthday day and a repeater of +1y. Then Org Agenda automatically gives
> me about two weeks' notice of that approaching.
>
> There's no integration here with another contacts system, but I find that
> this works well for me.

Almost same here, only that I don't mark those "TODO", but just make
a headline with an (active) timestamp.

Hth,

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