Orgmode Syntax and the Agenda
Essentially i decided (for whatever whimsical reason!) to move from the emacs diary to keeping everything in a specific org file. So previously my diary simply contained lines such as;
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%%(diary-anniversary 10 03 2017) marvin went paranoid - %d yrs old
%%(diary-anniversary 10 13 2017) supply switch over date - %d yrs ago
%%(diary-cyclic 14 1 04 2019) Black bin
%%(diary-cyclic 14 1 11 2019) Blue binelisp code snippet end
really simple and it worked, ok the date system takes some remembering as its format is x m d y where
| Description | |
|---|---|
| x | number of re-occurrences if a cyclic event |
| m | month |
| d | day |
| y | year |
easy enough but backwards for the UK who are always d.m.y or at worst y.m.d. So after much searching and testing i managed to get an org file working with anniversaries and also a working %d element so an entry resembles;
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* Anniversaries
%%(org-anniversary 1969 2 14) Arthur Dent - %d yrs oldelisp code snippet end
here you can see the date is easy its in y.m.d format and the %d reports correctly in the agenda, however for cyclic events it took me far longer to understand how to get them into the org file, you still need to use the diary-cyclic format and this sits under its own heading so i have an entry which looks like
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* Blue bin collection
<%%(diary-cyclic 26 1 4 2019)>elisp code snippet end
Now in my emacs dot file i have
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'(org-agenda-diary-file "//path/to/myfile/my_diary.org")elisp code snippet end
Running the normal agenda commands now reads and show both the anniversaries and cyclic events correctly.