Re: Notifications of appointments in Agenda screen?

["Peter Münster" <pmlists@free.fr>]

On Thu, Aug 30 2012, Nathan Neff wrote:

> 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".

Hi,

With org-notify.el you don't need an external messaging app, you can do
all in emacs.


> I found org-notify.el,
> (https://github.com/p-m/org-notify/blob/master/org-notify.el)
> but it seems to require a "notify" property on any headline that you
> want to be notified of.

It's also optional. When the "notify" property is missing, a default
value will be used.


> I would like org-mode to automatically notify me (on the status
> bar, etc) for
> any headline that has a time associated with it.

Today, org-notify.el requires a "DEADLINE"-timestamp, but this can
easily be changed in the code.


> I also don't want to rely on an external program because I use org-mode
> on different systems.

See above. There are predefined functions for displaying a message in
the minibuffer or in a new emacs window, and you can define other
functions, that do whatever you want (something with the modeline for
example).

-- 
           Peter