Appointments - planner-el

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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.

For task-based appointments: (planner-appt-use-tasks)
For schedule-based appointments: (planner-appt-use-schedule)
For both task- and schedule-based appointments: (planner-appt-use-tasks-and-schedule)

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.