Re: Org agenda and appointments

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 11:31:23 +0100, Manuel Giraud via Users list for the 
>>>>> GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> said:

    Manuel> Hi,
    Manuel> I like to have Emacs remind me of upcoming appointments.  For this, 
I
    Manuel> have put "(appt-activate 1)" in my init file and it works 
automagically
    Manuel> for anything that is (or will be) into the Diary.

    Manuel> Now, I'm also using Org agenda.  For instance, I use 'org-capture' 
to
    Manuel> enter some new appointment.  The Info manual says that I should call
    Manuel> 'org-agenda-to-appt' to add Org agenda appointments and also have
    Manuel> notifications about those.  The problem is that I could forget to 
make
    Manuel> this call after entering a new appointment.

    Manuel> Inspired by what is done in 'appt-active', I came up with the 
following
    Manuel> solution in my init file:

    Manuel> (defun +org-agenda-update-appt ()
    Manuel>   (when (member buffer-file-name (org-agenda-files))
    Manuel>     (org-agenda-to-appt))
    Manuel>   nil)
    Manuel> (add-hook 'write-file-functions #'+org-agenda-update-appt)

    Manuel> So my question is: Is there a better/cleaner interface to do this?
    Manuel> Because what I have done seems bit tricky from a user point of view.

I think this is what `org-capture-after-finalize-hook' is for.

Robert
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