Re: [O] Advance notice of birthdays in org-mode via org-contacts

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Alan Schmitt <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Eric,
>
> On 2019-05-28 04:34, Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> And (shameless plug) if you're using EBDB, you can set both
>> `ebdb-use-diary' and `org-agenda-include-diary' to t, and
>> anniversaries
>> will show in the agenda.
>
> Thank you for the plug, I've been wanting to look at EBDB for a while.
> I
> have a few questions: is it easy to migrate data from BBDB? Can you
> have
> org links to EBDB records? Does it work with mu4e for address
> completion?

Glad you're considering it! EBDB will migrate automatically from
versions 2 or 3 of BBDB (it is slow, but you only have to do it once),
you just have to have the `bbdb-file' variable pointing to a valid BBDB
file, then call `ebdb-open'.

It supports org links, either to single records, or to record searches:
following a link like "ebdb:mail/@gnu.org" will search for all records
with Gnu email addresses. You can also tag your records with org tags,
and pop up an EBDB window alongside a tag agenda search, for instance.

In theory it supports mu4e, but I think you would be the first user, if
you tried it, so beware! :)

Eric