On Thu, Feb 23 2012, Nick Dokos wrote: > what does this do that appt.el (and its org interface) does not?
Sorry, I've totally forgotten to write about my motivation, to create such an org-notify module. Here a summary: - different warning periods for different todo-types - fine grained warning periods (smallest unit is second) - continue notifications, when deadline is overdue - easy modification of timestamps (just one click, to say "let's do it tomorrow") - switch from "todo" to "done" by clicking on the notification window - configurable notification types (email, notifications-notify, beep, etc.) - configurable notification period - configurable notification duration - crescendo notifications (be more aggressive, when time gets closer to deadline) There was a little thread about this subject: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/48832 Example usage: (org-notify-add 'appt '(:time "-1s" :period "20s" :duration 10 :actions (org-notify-action-message org-notify-action-ding)) '(:time "15m" :period "2m" :duration 100 :actions org-notify-action-notify) '(:time "2h" :period "5m" :actions org-notify-action-message) '(:time "1d" :actions org-notify-action-email)) This means for todo-items with `notify' property set to `appt': 1 day before deadline, send a reminder-email, 2 hours before deadline, start to send messages every 5 minutes, then, 15 minutes before deadline, start to pop up notification windows every 2 minutes. The timeout of the window is set to 100 seconds. Finally, when deadline is overdue, send messages and make noise. -- Peter
