{"id":9625,"date":"2021-04-14T15:22:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9625"},"modified":"2021-04-14T15:22:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:22:14","slug":"emacs-diary-and-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9625","title":{"rendered":"Emacs Diary and Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesilaos Stavrou has posted another of his excellent videos on Emacs. This time it\u2019s about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NkhgIB64zgc\">Emacs Diary and Calendar operations and how they work together<\/a>. It turns out that the diary and the calendar are tightly integrated and work together to provide a particularly nice workflow.<\/p>\n<p>If you use the diary feature, you should definitely watch Stavrou\u2019s video. There are lots of features involving the calendar that you may not know about. The same advice applies if you\u2019re looking for a simple reminder list. Even though Stavrou doesn\u2019t use the diary <i>as a diary<\/i>, his video shows you how to use it that way too.<\/p>\n<p>As Stavrou notes, you can do all this in Org mode as I and many others do. Stavrou, though, wants a simple system to remind him of upcoming tasks and doesn\u2019t need or want the extra functionality that Org offers for this particular job.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, Stavrou has tweaked things to better fit his needs. For example, he\u2019s added a bit of Elisp to to send him an email every morning with the day\u2019s events. He also configured the diary is give him a warning \\(X\\) minutes before an event.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s built a nice system that works well for him and probably others but I\u2019m already doing all this in Org-mode and don\u2019t intend to change. If I were just starting, though I would give it some serious thought. Likewise, if I ever decide to keep a diary\u2014in the sense of today\u2019s thoughts and observations\u2014I\u2019d almost certainly use the diary for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesilaos Stavrou has posted another of his excellent videos on Emacs. This time it\u2019s about the Emacs Diary and Calendar operations and how they work together. It turns out that the diary and the calendar are tightly integrated and work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9625\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-9625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9626,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625\/revisions\/9626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}