Re: Best practices to get reminders?

[jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo)]

Nikolaus Rath writes:

> However, there's one thing where I feel lost. I don't expect to 
> be editing my orgmode files on a daily basis (at least not yet), 
> so how can I make sure that I don't miss an important deadline? 
> It seems to me that it doesn't help much if instead of worrying 
> to forget a deadline I now have to worry about forgetting to 
> check my org-mode agenda... 
> 
> How do other people handle this? Is everyone else opening and 
> working on their org files daily so that this becomes a 
> non-issue?

You can put this after your org-agenda-files configuration in your 
.emacs:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (appt-activate 1)
  (org-agenda-to-appt)
#+END_SRC

Then you will be reminded of things in your org files, before the 
appointment time (I think 12 min is the default).

You could also add this, so that the appointments refresh and new 
get added every time that you call the agenda:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (add-hook 'org-agenda-finalize-hook (lambda () 
  (org-agenda-to-appt t)))
#+END_SRC

Best,
-- 
Jorge.