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7.2.2 Appointments

If you would like to use planner for your appointment alerts instead of using the diary system, you might like to try planner-appt.

According to your preferences, you may choose from two different approaches. Appointments in task descriptions on today's plan page are like this:

     #A   _ @12:45 Do something (TaskPool)

and appointments in today's schedule section are like this:

     * Schedule
     
       9:00 | 12:00 | Read Simmel's Philosophy of Money
     @12:45 |       | Do Something Else
     @13:00 | 14:00 | lunch

You can even use both at the same time if you like.

Usage

In the file where you configure Planner, add one of the following.

And finally if you want everything to be updated automatically add:

     (planner-appt-insinuate)

If you don't want to do the insinuation then you can call:

     M-x planner-appt-update

after editing appointments on the page (note that this is not necessary if you use tasks for the appointments and you don't edit the task descriptions outside of planner-edit-task-description).

Try both methods; if you find that you prefer one over the other, use one of the specific planner-appt-use- functions, as there are some performance gains when using one method exclusively.