Questions tagged [diary]
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Ignore a repeated diary entry, just this once, in Org Agenda?
In a nutshell: I'm looking for a way to selectively hide one instance of a repeated diary entry so it doesn't show up in my org-agenda.
I have many repeating diary entries for things like weekly ...
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Redirect diary to other directory
The Emacs diary is configured in ~/diary as the default.
I want separate the configuration and my personal notes.
How could redirect the system's diary to other directory?
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Use diary sexp as repeatable TODO's
So what I am looking for is to Schedule repeatable events with TODO keywords where as soon as in org agenda I mark a TODO item as DONE, just that one event be marked as DONE rather than all of the ...
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Insert weekday to the diary date format
The format of diary is
Mar 18, 2019
This is my diary
I want to append day of the week to it.
the color of Monday does not fit to the date,
Upon checking the documentation, there is no such ...
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european-calendar-style not working
I have the following in my init.el file:
(setq org-agenda-span 36)
(setq org-agenda-start-on-weekday 1)
(setq european-calendar-style t)
However, diary blocks are still interpreted as month first, ...
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Bad sexp error on custom diary function
I've created a diary function to allow me to record cyclic events.
So something like (diary-limited-cyclic-weekday 8 '(0 3 6) 01 01 2018) will create an event for every Sunday, Wednesday, and ...
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Can't insert diary block entries
I am having problem with inserting diary block entries into my calendar. In the homepage i read that i b starts a block entry, pressing i b on the calendar mode however i see No mark set in this ...
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How can I see entries of more than one day in Emacs calendar?
I want to use the built in calender.
In the Manual i found many key bindings for moving around in the calendar.
But for showing the entries / dates in my calender i found only "d", which shows me the ...
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Show tasks during orgmode scheduling
I am using OrgMode to schedule appointments and tasks. For a simple scheduled event like a phone call, I usually add a simple timestamp by CTRL+.. Then the cursor is moved to the minibuffer and a ...
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How to create calendar entry for last weekday of every month?
At the last weekday of the month I want to be reminded to prepare
invoice/expenses so I get them filed by the first. It's no use just
getting reminded on the last day of the month, if this is a ...
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Adding diary entries in chronological order rather than appending to the file
I am using the diary both to save my calendar appointments and to write notes. Consequently I always read and write my diary file (on the same window, which means I open the real diary file), and I ...
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Appointments not working (not displaying at all)
Emacs 24.5.
Here is init:
;; appointments
(require 'appt)
(appt-activate t) ; I have also tried (appt-activate 1) here as the appt.el documentation says to
; (setq appt-message-warning-time 1) I ...
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Dismiss diary appointment alert
I have set Emacs to alert me via a window 30 minutes before an appointment. This is working as expected. However, every three minutes thereafter, Emacs continues to alert me to the same appointment. ...
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Change diary location?
The diary file is located by default at ~/diary. I'd rather it wasn't. I've looked quite a bit through the reference over the past couple of days, I haven't seen anything generated in the .emacs that ...
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Conflict on the meaning of * when including Org mode files in a calendar diary
I want to include org-mode files into the default diary file of calendar mode, but there is a problem: the * symbol is used to match unspecific day. for example,
** 2nd heading
in the ~/diary file ...
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Change local holiday calendar
Org-mode's agenda view can display local holidays after enabling it in org-agenda-include-diary. This however displays US holidays (such as President's Day). What is the simplest way to configure it ...
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Make Org report: “Bob's 21st birthday” like imported diary entries do
When you have:
(setq org-agenda-include-diary t)
set, then an entry in the ~/diary file like this:
%%(org-anniversary 1950 02 14) Bob's %d%s birthday
displays as:
Diary: Bob's 65th birthday
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How to set proper smtp Gmail settings in Emacs in order to be able to work with `M-x diary-mail-entries`
I tried the following settings in order to work M-x diary-mail-entries but it fails. My question is how to put the correct settings in order to be able to work with M-x diary-mail-entries in Emacs.
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