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 11:46:22 -0400 Message-ID: <19169.1346341582@alphaville> References: Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35278) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T76x0-0000BZ-0o for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:46:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T76wr-0002GE-Ue for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:46:33 -0400 Received: from g6t0187.atlanta.hp.com ([15.193.32.64]:41540) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T76wr-0002G0-Q5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:46:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Nathan Neff of "Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:36:01 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". > > Nevermind -- I got it. > > I found the appt-activate and org-agenda-to-appt. I'll put a simple > "how-to" on Worg if I find time :-) > In addition to Russell's hack in org-hacks, there is a section on Appointments/Diary in the FAQ: the latter is probably the right place to put your how-to. Nick