Re: Toggle appointment notification

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020 at 2:07 AM
> From: "Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" 
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Toggle appointment notification
>
> Michael Heerdegen wrote:
>
> >> appointments I cannot find in either core Emacs or by
> >> searching the [M]ELPAs [...]
> >
> > They are part of the built-in Calendar and Diary. The file's
> > name is "appt.el", located in "lisp/calendar", and they are
> > described in the user manual,
> >
> >   (info "(emacs) Appointments")
>
> Thanks :)
>
> I always thought I didn't need a diary because my memory was
> so good. Now it isn't half as good and to be honest maybe it
> wasn't THAT good even then (tho good) so maybe one should have
> a diary.
>
> OTOH all e-mail form a diary WRT your computer life. Maybe in
> the USENET days it reflected to a higher degree also other
> asex I mean aspects to your life.
>
> No, writing long diary things, that was what people did BEFORE
> computers, right? The damn blank white paper was the computer
> in combination with a brain, hand, and pen. (And rulers and
> stuff for engineers, tables for math/stats people ... girls
> without boyfriends I don't know what gear they used but I'm
> sure they had it or worked it out)
>
> Anyway so no thanks for me, maybe one could just write down
> single words, to help remembering? like "brunette Italian"...
> OK, maybe THAT one would remember anyway, hey, the memory isn't
> _that_ bad just because it isn't what it used to be, right?
>
> When there are more memories than dreams, does that mean you
> are getting old? I wonder how you'd quantify that tho...
>
>   (< (how-many 'dreams) (how-many 'memories))

You should go to a hospital and ask them to remember appointments.  See how 
that goes!  :)

> DNC :(
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