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2.8 Integrating Emacs Diary and Appointment Reminders

Emacs contains the calendar and diary by Edward M. Reingold. They are quite complementary to Org.

Calendar

The calendar displays a three-month calendar with holidays from different countries and cultures.

Diary

The diary allows you to keep track of anniversaries, lunar phases, sunrise/set, recurrent appointments (weekly, monthly) and more.

It can be very useful to combine output from Org with the diary. In order to include entries from the Emacs diary into Org mode’s agenda, you only need to customize the following variable to ‘t’:

If you configure org-agenda-diary-file to point to an Org file, Org creates entries in that file.

Org can interact with Emacs appointments notification facility. To add the appointments of your agenda files, use the command:

org-agenda-to-appt

This command lets you filter through the list of your appointments and add only those belonging to a specific category or matching a regular expression.

All diary entries including holidays, anniversaries, etc., are included in the agenda buffer created by Org mode.

‘<SPC>’, ‘<TAB>’, and ‘<RET>’

used from the agenda buffer to jump to the diary file in order to edit existing diary entries.

i

org-agenda-diary-entry: insert new entries for the current date works in the agenda buffer

‘S’, ‘M’, and ‘C’

display Sunrise/Sunset times, show lunar phases and to convert to other calendars, respectively.

’c’

used to switch back and forth between calendar and agenda.


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