Hi Uwe, "Uwe Jochum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all, > > using entries in my diary file I get an alarm bell ten minutes before a > meeting or an appointment. That's useful. and should be more flexible... > But indeed orgmode is much more flexible :-) > for dealing with appointments and scheduled items, so I > wanted to do more time management in orgmode. But I cannot figure out > how to set an alarm bell in Emacs for scheduled stuff in orgmode. I > tried to do it by integrating my orgmode file in the diary file (see > orgmode FAQ, sec. 9), but that doesn't work (and it is not recommended > by Carsten). So is there any other way to get the notification mechanism > to co-operate with orgmode? And what is more: you need to rely on Emacs running. OK, since I read EMails with Gnus Emacs /is/ always running, but nevertheless. I prefer my alarm bell being an informative reminder email. Shouldn't it be possible to have a small elisp file which checks for alarms to trigger in `org-agenda-files' and performs some reminder action (like sending an email, ring the bell, start some external application to create a popup ... whatever) if needed? This small extra elisp file could then be called from cron using emacs --script command line option (only available in Gnu Emacs 22 if I am not mistaken but something similar could probably achieved using -l, -batch or -f, etc) every -say- 5 minutes. To find out whether an alarm has to be triggered there could be a global option which then refers to the scheduled date-times but one might also think about a syntax how to defined multiple reminders for one todo item. Being but a beginner with org this may be a stupid idea, but it /sounds/ reasonable to me. I haven't started writing some elisp, though. And of course this is slightly OT :-) Best Regards Stefan -- Stefan Kamphausen --- http://www.skamphausen.de a blessed +42 regexp of confusion (weapon in hand) You hit. The format string crumbles and turns to dust. _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
