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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Subject: Re: tea-time?
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:46:08 -0400
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Cc: Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, henry atting <nsmp_01@online.de>

Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a way to tell org, "say X in Y minutes"?  If not, what are
> the relative merits of appt-add and tea-time and the series of steps?

I use appt for this as described here:
http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Reminders

It puts a message in the mode line e.g. (App't in 6 min.) and beeps at
12, 9, 6, 3, and 0 minutes for me.

HTH
-Bernt