From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Notifications of appointments in Agenda screen? Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:39:12 -0400 Message-ID: <19092.1346341152@alphaville> References: Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56633) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T76q6-0004mC-Fp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:39:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T76q1-00078w-NK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:39:26 -0400 Received: from g4t0014.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.17]:30068) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T76q1-00075f-GZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:39:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Nathan Neff of "Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:26:41 PDT." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Nathan Neff Cc: emacs-orgmode Nathan Neff wrote: > I seem to recall a feature in org-mode that would show > notifications for upcoming appointments, scheduled items, > deadlines, etc. in Emacs itself. For example the status bar > would have a red notification saying "Dr Appointment in 15 minutes". > > I'm looking all over, and all I can find are posts about how to set > up org-notify to call some external messaging app. I'm on OSX and > don't want to purchase "Growl". > The appt.el part of the calendar/diary application that's built into emacs can certainly do that. See e.g. http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#org-agenda-appt-zenity but instead of using Russell's settings ,---- | ; 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)) `---- use --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (setq appt-display-format 'echo) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- or use the default setting of appt-disp-window-function which displays in an emacs window. Nick