Re: Reminders with alarms

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>]

In debian, there's a cowsay package you can use to make the computer 
speak.  Also packages that produce different types of beeps are 
available.   So far as I now know, they would need to be run as part of 
a bash script or the equivalent within emacs in order to work though.

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Martyn Jago wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm just starting to explore orgmode.  I'm an experienced GTD-er (6
> > yrs) and have looked with interest at a few articles on using orgmode
> > for this.  The one area I can't seem to work out is how to set a
> > reminder with an alarm and attach it to an entry.
> >
> > Suppose I have an entry like:
> >
> > ** My project
> > *** My action 1 :home:
> > *** My action 2 :follow up:
> >
> > I would like to be able to set a reminder that makes a visible (and
> > maybe audible) alert - in say 4 hrs, 2 days, at 1530 next wednesday
> > etc.  I see that I can set schedules for when to start work, but I've
> > been unable to get it to remind me at all.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > S.
> 
> I use the growl notification system (on MAC) along with todochiku.el for
> simple timer notification out of Emacs. Growl can be set to 'speak' the
> notification (not sure about other sounds). 
> 
> todochiku also works with (snarl/libnotify) on other OSs.
> 
> The command todochiku-message allows you to add a notification to a hook
> such as org-timer-done-hook (in your init file)...
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>  (defun mj-notify-timer-done ()
>   (todochiku-message "Title here" "Further text here"
>  (todochiku-icon 'bell)))
>  (add-hook 'org-timer-done-hook  'mj-notify-timer-done))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Regards
> 
> Martyn
> 
> 
> 

Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
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