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From: Amit Tendulkar <amit_tendulkar@persistent.com>
To: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
Cc: 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: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 23:23:33 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y46ip5k2.fsf@persistent.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <841t4boj06.fsf@gmail.com> (Marco Wahl's message of "Sun, 05 Jun 2016 15:36:09 +0200")

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).

Regards,
Amit

Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Amit,
>
>> 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").
>
>
> HTH,

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next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-06 17:54 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 [this message]
2016-06-07  6:08   ` Marco Wahl
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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