Thanks guys, I'll try your solutions and let you know how it goes!

I live in Emacs and just use the remind interface for notifications.
> They aren't as obvious (read: annoying) as pop-up windows that steal
> your mouse and keyboard focus but they work great for me.


What I have in mind is not a popup Windows, but to interface the gnome
notification system which is pretty unobtrusive or maybe use mumbles (www.*
mumbles*-project.org/).

Thanks,

Marcelo.


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:

> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I love org-mode and I'm constantly trying to find ways to enhance my
> > GTD workflow with it. One thing that I miss from the more high-level
> > PIMs (such as Evolution) is the notification feature, specifically
> > integrated into the environment (using gnome-notification for
> > example). My idea is to somehow parse my gtd.org file, search for
> > scheduled items and, using an additional metadata in the item, decide
> > when (how long before the event happens) to use gnome-notify (or any
> > other notify mechanism in the OS) to show the reminder of the
> > event. I'm thinking on using Ruby or Python to develop a small daemon
> > that would do that, but I'm not sure if this would be the best way. I
> > would love your suggestions regarding that. Of course, if I manage to
> > make it work, I will release the code as open-source ;)
>
> I live in Emacs and just use the remind interface for notifications.
> They aren't as obvious (read: annoying) as pop-up windows that steal
> your mouse and keyboard focus but they work great for me.
>
> Here's my setup.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun my-org-agenda-to-appt ()
>  (interactive)
>  (setq appt-time-msg-list nil)
>  (org-agenda-to-appt))
>
> (add-hook 'org-finalize-agenda-hook 'my-org-agenda-to-appt)
> (my-org-agenda-to-appt)
> (appt-activate t)
> (run-at-time "24:01" nil 'my-org-agenda-to-appt)
> (run-at-time "00:59" 3600 'org-save-all-org-buffers)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I've seen other setups for reminder windows and apps on this list so you
> might want to search the list archives if you need a different solution.
>
> -Bernt
>