Re: Re: Idea for agenda notifications

From: Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Idea for agenda notifications
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:54:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090424195452.GS21189@thinkpad.adamsinfoserv.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ocumrl5n.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>

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: 

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;; 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)))
))
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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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