From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernt Hansen Subject: Re: Is there any way to active the reminder of Org mode in Emacs? Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:01:05 -0400 Message-ID: <87lk3fm1zy.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> References: <877iezme9u.fsf@gmail.com> <87d4ornpc0.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlpT0-0005K9-Qe for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:01:14 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlpT0-0005J1-0Y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:01:14 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JlpSz-0005Ig-OR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:01:13 -0400 Received: from mho-02-bos.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.179]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JlpSz-0001qL-9C for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:01:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Daniel Clemente's message of "Tue\, 15 Apr 2008 18\:52\:00 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Daniel Clemente Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, DigitalPig "Daniel Clemente" writes: > Hi, > to me, appt is still rather uncomfortable; maybe because I don't > know how to use it correctly. What I have found is: > > If you don't notice a reminder message (for instance because you > are away from your computer for hours), the reminder goes away and you > never see it. appt might ask for a confirmation. > > How can you go from the appointment reminder to the org file which > describes it? My setup sets up reminders for today only. The run-at-time line refreshes the appointments tomorrow if I leave Emacs running overnight. The appointments (for me) are all viewable on the agenda. Anything with a time that shows up in the agenda for today sets an appointment alarm. The first thing I do when returning to Emacs is check the agenda for today - that's just a habit I have. I don't normally have more than 1 or 2 appointments in a day and most days have no appointments. I sit in front of Emacs all day though and the beep reminder from the appointment works great for me. Other people have setups that pop-up a window when the appointment alarm occurs - you can find details by searching the list archives. > > Maybe it's 23:00 h and you have one appointment not for today, but > for tomorrow; but appt shows you only the ones for today. How do you > make it show just =E2=80=9Ethe next one"? The appointments from org-mode are in the agenda. If you look at the week agenda (C-c C-a a w) and have it set up to you always display today forward the appointment is pretty obvious. The setup for that is (setq org-agenda-start-on-weekday nil) > > In fact, how can you see the next appointments? (Even if they are > for next week) Appointments are just for today. I'd look ahead at my agenda for scheduled items. Repeated scheduled items show up on each day in the agenda. > > How can you make that appt checks your agenda every N hours? > As long as emacs is running the appointment list is active. Each time I change the agenda it refreshes the appointments for me. > appt displays the reminder at the modeline. What happens if, just > after the message, you receive other messages? The reminder can also > get lost. It displays the appointment multiple times (and beeps) for me. At 12 min, 9 min, 6 min, 3 min, and 0 min. The modeline has the pending appointment (App't in 4 min) during this entire period. > > > Do you find appt complete and nice to use? If so, how did you improve = it? > Are there better methods? > It works great for me. It's not "in-my-face" so that it disrupts whatever I'm doing. The beep, message, and modeline is enough of a reminder and I just go to the org-entry from the agenda. HTH, Bernt