I hadn't yet. It looks like this is similar to the idea I had of pulling diary entries out of a separate file, which makes me feel much less dumb for not stumbling across it before. :-)
Thanks for the heads-up! - Adam Compton Daniel Mahler wrote: > have you looked at planner-cyclic ? > Daniel > > On 5/3/07, Adam Compton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am interested in having Planner auto-populate the Diary section of my >> day pages with a list of daily chores (cleaning the litterbox, washing >> dishes, etc.). My initial attempt was to add lines in my .diary file >> like "Monday Wash the dishes". This plan worked, but I did not forsee >> the problem of having "planner-diary-number-of-days" set greater than >> one: every day's plan page is populated with the whole week's worth of >> chores (since I have it set to 7 days). While this is exactly correct >> behavior, it is very cluttered and not what I want. ;-) >> >> My preference would be for "normal" diary events (appointments, >> birthdays, etc.) to get populated into the daily Diary section 7 days >> before the event, and also for "chores" diary events to be populated >> only for the current day. I don't see a way of getting planner-diary to >> make that kind of distinction, so I'm trying to figure out alternatives. >> Is there a better way to get a single day's worth of cyclical, >> non-recurring events into my daily plan pages? At this point, I'm >> thinking of further customizing the "planner-daily-template" function to >> go snarf lines out of a separate file based on the day of the week that >> "planner-today" is. While doable, this would be a lot of work, and I'm >> completely open to doing this a different way. >> >> As an aside, if I do wind up writing a "planner-daily-template" function >> to handle this, where would be a good place for me to publish it? Post >> it back to the mailing list in its entirely? Post a blog entry with the >> code, and mail a link to the list? Add it to a wiki somewhere? I like to >> contribute documentation back where I can. :-) >> >> Thanks in advance for the help! >> >> - Adam Compton >> _______________________________________________ Planner-el-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/planner-el-discuss
