Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > No, not necessarily. I have entries like this: > > %%(diary-anniversary 1981 03 17) Somebody's birthday (%d years) > > and the agenda view shows "Somebody's birthday (19 years)"; the actual > heading for this entry is ignored.
Where in an entry do you specify such specifications? > However, I don't know if other diary- functions work the same way. Yes, the interesting part then is: when does org behave like this, and can this behavior be forced? > > Or do I miss something? How to other people deal with things > > like...garbage collection? > > I use the org-recur [1] package for this. Very nice for repeating > events. > Footnotes: > [1] https://github.com/m-cat/org-recur Thanks for the hint, I'll have a look. Michael.