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I would like to color the background of each day in calendar according to the number of events in my org-agenda. The idea is to have a quick and visual idea of what are the busiest days. The code from How to highlight weekend days in Emacs calendar? might be a good start and I would need to write a function that, given a date, returns the number of scheduled event from my org-agenda/diary (I use org-diary) and set the face to face-busy-0, face-busy-1, etc.

I already wrote a Python code for doing more or less the same in the terminal (see Yearly calendar view of agenda (with colored background) but my elisp is not so good.

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  • I actually do exactly as you describe, but it is a little complex and requires a custom solution. For some ideas, you may wish to check out my example repository for lorg-calendar which includes some highlighting onto a 3-month or 12-month calendar for certain events: github.com/lawlist/lorg-calendar And, as I mentioned in one of my previous comments to a thread you linked in the question above, one idea is to extract the data that is used to create the org-agenda and operate on that extracted data to generate the calendar view:emacs.stackexchange.com/a/12563/2287
    – lawlist
    May 21, 2020 at 16:10
  • In the lorg-calendar repository example linked in the previous comment, I use a modified version of a mark-visible-calendar-date by Drew Adams in his calendar+.el library: emacswiki.org/emacs/calendar%2B.el That library may have some other goodies that could help you on your quest.
    – lawlist
    May 21, 2020 at 16:15
  • Thanks for all the pointers, I'll start with that.
    – Nicolas Rougier
    May 21, 2020 at 17:28

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I ended up with the code below. I guess it can be shorten/optimized (it's a bit slow) but it does the job.

(defface busy-1  '((t :foreground "black" :background "#eceff1")) "")
(defface busy-2  '((t :foreground "black" :background "#cfd8dc")) "")
(defface busy-3  '((t :foreground "black" :background "#b0bec5")) "")
(defface busy-4  '((t :foreground "black" :background "#90a4ae")) "")
(defface busy-5  '((t :foreground "white" :background "#78909c")) "")
(defface busy-6  '((t :foreground "white" :background "#607d8b")) "")
(defface busy-7  '((t :foreground "white" :background "#546e7a")) "")
(defface busy-8  '((t :foreground "white" :background "#455a64")) "")
(defface busy-9  '((t :foreground "white" :background "#37474f")) "")
(defface busy-10 '((t :foreground "white" :background "#263238")) "")

(defadvice calendar-generate-month
  (after highlight-weekend-days (month year indent) activate)
  "Highlight weekend days"
  (dotimes (i 31)
    (let ((date (list month (1+ i) year))
          (count (length (org-agenda-get-day-entries
                          "~/Documents/org/agenda.org" (list month (1+ i) year)))))
      (cond ((= count 0) ())
            ((= count 1) (calendar-mark-visible-date date 'busy-1))
            ((= count 2) (calendar-mark-visible-date date 'busy-2))
            ((= count 3) (calendar-mark-visible-date date 'busy-3))
            ((= count 4) (calendar-mark-visible-date date 'busy-4))
            ((= count 5) (calendar-mark-visible-date date 'busy-5))
            ((= count 6) (calendar-mark-visible-date date 'busy-6))
            ((= count 7) (calendar-mark-visible-date date 'busy-7))
            ((= count 8) (calendar-mark-visible-date date 'busy-8))
            ((= count 9) (calendar-mark-visible-date date 'busy-9))
            (t  (calendar-mark-visible-date date 'busy-10)))
)))

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