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I'm not a super big fan of Org timestamps for dates, either. Flexibility is OK. But I wish we had something like Remind [1] where you can define events based o
by nextos 8y ago
I'm not a super big fan of Org timestamps for dates, either. Flexibility is OK.
But I wish we had something like Remind [1] where you can define events based on e.g. Easter dates, skip recurring events if they fall into a holiday or move them according to a rule.
In particular, I hate I have to change all bank holidays every year. Remind got this right. There's some added complexity, though.
A nice thing about Org is the pragmatic way it deals with recurring events. You clone them and adjust at will, manually. So you can deal with really odd ways of re-scheduling meetings.
[1] https://www.roaringpenguin.com/wiki/index.php/Remind https://www.roaringpenguin.com/wiki/index.php/Remind
- sachdevap 8y agoOh, that's an interesting point. Actually, for Easter [0], you could technically write a piece of code to figure out when Easter is. But on a more practical note, maybe Org-mode should have event based entries, which in my opinion also speaks to a lack of flexibility. It should be possible to anchor dates on other events, so you can have one annual calendar file to replace at once, which may be automatically generated. Like wanting to plan something a week before Easter? [0] https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/determining-easter-date.html https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/determining-easter-date...
- nextos 8y agoActually there's been an Elisp function posted to the Org mailing list to calculate Easter dates that has made it into the Org FAQ [1]. However, I'd prefer if all these things were merged into mainline. [1] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html https://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html