Peter Münster <pmli...@free.fr> wrote: > 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. >
Thanks! That's very helpful. I'll take a look in my copious (cough!) spare time. Nick
