Awesome! This idea could be extended to add other kind of events, like send
emails, SMS, play some audio file, whatever (turn org-mode in a kind of PIM
server too.. hmm, lots of cool ideas come to my mind). I still prefer using
the gnome-notifier but it shouldn't be hard to adapt it for that.

Well -- the first thing I need to do though is to master elisp :)

Thanks!

Marcelo.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Russell Adams <RLAdams@adamsinfoserv.com>wrote:

> I have emacs w/ org running at all times, and I use a hook with
> kdialog to make popup notifications when appointments are due.
>
> I adapted this from someone else's post on using Zenity, I wish I
> remembered who so I could credit them.
>
> Here is a snippet from my .emacs:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ;; For org appointment reminders
>
> ;; Get appointments for today
> (defun my-org-agenda-to-appt ()
>        (interactive)
>        (setq appt-time-msg-list nil)
>         (let ((org-deadline-warning-days 0))    ;; will be automatic in org
>  5.23
>           (org-agenda-to-appt)))
>
> (my-org-agenda-to-appt)
> (appt-activate t)
> (run-at-time "24:01" nil 'my-org-agenda-to-appt)
>
> ;; 5 minute warning
> (setq appt-message-warning-time '60)
> (setq appt-display-interval '15)
>
> ;; Update appt each time agenda opened.
> (add-hook 'org-finalize-agenda-hook 'my-org-agenda-to-appt)
>
> ;; Setup zenify, we tell appt to use window, and replace default function
> (setq appt-display-format 'window)
> (setq appt-disp-window-function (function my-appt-disp-window))
>
> (defun my-appt-disp-window (min-to-app new-time msg)
>        (save-window-excursion (shell-command (concat
>      "/usr/bin/kdialog --msgbox '" msg "' &") nil nil)))
> ))
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Enjoy!
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:55:48PM -0400, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> > Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > By the way, how can I use the org-agenda-to-appt? When I run it a
> > > message saying "No event to add" is returned -- I do have some
> > > scheduled events on my gtd.org file and this file is part of the
> > > org-agenda-files list.
> >
> > As I understand it org-agenda-to-appt picks up tasks from your
> > org-agenda-files that have an active timestamp for today.  If you have a
> > scheduled, deadline, or active timestamp for 12:00 it will create
> > reminders in the remind package for those and let remind handle them.
> >
> > I don't use dates/times in headlines so I don't know if it works for
> > that case.
> >
> > For my setup remind starts bugging me 12 minutes before the appointment.
> >
> > -Bernt
> >
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