From: brian powell <briangpowellms@gmail.com>
To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
Cc: Martyn Jago <martyn.jago@btinternet.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reminders with alarms
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:42:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFm0skF3Pwo8z7pL_iBpp4PqBUORu5j-KiE6bKHxAzJNVEojXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1109072308190.66315@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg>
*Recommend using "flite" (FestivalLite) for text-to-speech: cat
blah.reminder | flite
** Could get really over-the-top and do something like this:
http://gizmodo.com/5522802/twitter-chumby-and-a-cuckoo-bird-walk-into-a-clock?tag=chumby
--you could use the Twitter API and send OrgMode Tweets (complete with
reminders) to your personalized Chumby Cuckoo Clock!!
;-)
P.S. I've used calendar/*Fancy Diary Entries* and appt.el for many
years--works great--I just have it pop up a big blank emacs screen
with the alarm reminder--I usually set it for 15 minutes ahead of the
important reminder:
;;; appt.el --- appointment notification functions.
;; Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Author: Neil Mager <neilm@juliet.ll.mit.edu>
...
(setq appt-message-warning-time 15)
(setq appt-display-interval 5)
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:
> In debian, there's a cowsay package you can use to make the computer
> speak. Also packages that produce different types of beeps are
> available. So far as I now know, they would need to be run as part of
> a bash script or the equivalent within emacs in order to work though.
>
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Martyn Jago wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Hi there,
>> >
>> > I'm just starting to explore orgmode. I'm an experienced GTD-er (6
>> > yrs) and have looked with interest at a few articles on using orgmode
>> > for this. The one area I can't seem to work out is how to set a
>> > reminder with an alarm and attach it to an entry.
>> >
>> > Suppose I have an entry like:
>> >
>> > ** My project
>> > *** My action 1 :home:
>> > *** My action 2 :follow up:
>> >
>> > I would like to be able to set a reminder that makes a visible (and
>> > maybe audible) alert - in say 4 hrs, 2 days, at 1530 next wednesday
>> > etc. I see that I can set schedules for when to start work, but I've
>> > been unable to get it to remind me at all.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions?
>> >
>> > S.
>>
>> I use the growl notification system (on MAC) along with todochiku.el for
>> simple timer notification out of Emacs. Growl can be set to 'speak' the
>> notification (not sure about other sounds).
>>
>> todochiku also works with (snarl/libnotify) on other OSs.
>>
>> The command todochiku-message allows you to add a notification to a hook
>> such as org-timer-done-hook (in your init file)...
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (defun mj-notify-timer-done ()
>> (todochiku-message "Title here" "Further text here"
>> (todochiku-icon 'bell)))
>> (add-hook 'org-timer-done-hook 'mj-notify-timer-done))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Martyn
>>
>>
>>
>
> Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
> "I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet
> of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's
> got God on his side."
> ~ Bill Hicks
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-08 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-07 5:39 Reminders with alarms Stephen Nelson-Smith
2011-09-07 7:40 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-09-07 8:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-09-07 16:25 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-09-07 19:05 ` Martyn Jago
2011-09-08 3:10 ` Jude DaShiell
2011-09-08 15:42 ` brian powell [this message]
2011-10-03 11:45 ` Ivan Vilata i Balaguer
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