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Orgmode Power Yet Confusion

I’m not a power user of orgmode yet it is a piece of software i use daily. My emacs diary.org file has around 100 sexp entries, plus events, appointments spanning 7yrs. The problem i had was sexp entries show up in the emacs diary but would not show up in any mobile client, as usual with org there are many ways to achieve the same thing. For example a sexp entry could look like %%(diary-cyclic 14 1 10 2025) Blue bin so is a reminder to put the right colour bin out every 2wks works great when in emacs but outside? this entry is better, simpler and achieves the same results;

  • <2025-01-24 Fri +2w>

it shows the entry up every 2wks just the same as the sexp but works across the mobile apps as well. Why did i choose sexp in the first place for something so mundane? I guess it was because I just carried over the concept from the anniversary function where i could have the number of years show up since the event ie

  • %%(org-anniversary 1969 2 14) Arthur Dent - %d yrs old

of course there is another way to capture repeating events one that allows you to add notes if something unique occurs for the specific repeat entry;

https://karl-voit.at/2017/01/15/org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift/

Lesson learned is that in org there is more than one way to skin a cat.