Thanks guys, I'll try your solutions and let you know how it goes! I live in Emacs and just use the remind interface for notifications. > They aren't as obvious (read: annoying) as pop-up windows that steal > your mouse and keyboard focus but they work great for me.
What I have in mind is not a popup Windows, but to interface the gnome notification system which is pretty unobtrusive or maybe use mumbles (www.* mumbles*-project.org/). Thanks, Marcelo. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> wrote: > Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celose...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I love org-mode and I'm constantly trying to find ways to enhance my > > GTD workflow with it. One thing that I miss from the more high-level > > PIMs (such as Evolution) is the notification feature, specifically > > integrated into the environment (using gnome-notification for > > example). My idea is to somehow parse my gtd.org file, search for > > scheduled items and, using an additional metadata in the item, decide > > when (how long before the event happens) to use gnome-notify (or any > > other notify mechanism in the OS) to show the reminder of the > > event. I'm thinking on using Ruby or Python to develop a small daemon > > that would do that, but I'm not sure if this would be the best way. I > > would love your suggestions regarding that. Of course, if I manage to > > make it work, I will release the code as open-source ;) > > I live in Emacs and just use the remind interface for notifications. > They aren't as obvious (read: annoying) as pop-up windows that steal > your mouse and keyboard focus but they work great for me. > > Here's my setup. > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (defun my-org-agenda-to-appt () > (interactive) > (setq appt-time-msg-list nil) > (org-agenda-to-appt)) > > (add-hook 'org-finalize-agenda-hook 'my-org-agenda-to-appt) > (my-org-agenda-to-appt) > (appt-activate t) > (run-at-time "24:01" nil 'my-org-agenda-to-appt) > (run-at-time "00:59" 3600 'org-save-all-org-buffers) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > I've seen other setups for reminder windows and apps on this list so you > might want to search the list archives if you need a different solution. > > -Bernt >
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