From: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-notify: Need to get notifications at the start time of the task (in addition to the deadline)
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 08:08:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84inxlsf88.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 841t4boj06.fsf@gmail.com
>>> I need a way to get notifications at the time of starting a task or at
>>> the start of the meeting (i.e. the SCHEDULED timestamp). Currently I
>>> know of only getting notifications for the DEADLINE timestamp. However,
>>> it will be more productive for me to get notification to tell me to
>>> start working on a task (or attend a meeting).
>>
>> Have you tried "Appointment reminders"? See (info "(org) Weekly/daily
>> agenda").
>
> Thanks Marco. Yes, appointment reminders will work for me. Any idea how to
> configure them in such a way that I get popups? Popups are helpful
> especially when my focus is not on Emacs. Or even when I am connected to
> a remote desktop (say through Citrix).
http://emacs-fu.blogspot.de/2009/11/showing-pop-ups.html
looks promising.
hth,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-07 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-05 12:09 org-notify: Need to get notifications at the start time of the task (in addition to the deadline) Amit Tendulkar
2016-06-05 13:36 ` Marco Wahl
2016-06-06 17:53 ` Amit Tendulkar
2016-06-07 6:08 ` Marco Wahl [this message]
2016-06-07 7:24 ` Charles Philip Chan
2016-06-08 1:57 ` Amit Tendulkar
2016-06-08 15:01 ` Nick Dokos
2016-06-09 0:35 ` Charles Philip Chan
2016-06-10 16:45 ` Amit Tendulkar
2023-10-17 9:13 ` Peter Münster
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