From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lowell Gilbert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Past appointments Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:10:56 -0400 Message-ID: <44oc4lzy33.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <44k4fa3x7s.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301942463 20342 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2011 18:41:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 18:41:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 04 20:40:59 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6ohu-0002h8-3V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:40:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38526 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6oht-0003Ho-HN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:40:57 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:10:56 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QyM4qZCMBx72vWqp/f+4Xx0aV3k= Original-Lines: 30 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.92.78.145 Original-X-Trace: sv3-EcutUdM4fu1M7zgRmPPHdPOntKiPdYy0TaxVpG1kNqFULUOnNIrDXoesFl+GBIncTVz6SUVKupG3ugw!NMJYGyXXcjifb+9bCjBHfhQtpvDFFN/26Oj33X7A+C3258atOutWSU9sLsJfps+itkw90KYcXIBI!Qsbm3WIvSQ== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2629 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186494 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80611 Archived-At: Bastian Ballmann writes: > Hi, > > Am Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:30:47 -0400 > schrieb Lowell Gilbert : > >> These days, though, I use org-mode, which has better support for >> tracking events (as opposed to dates). I still use diary for things >> like birthdays. I think there are some other scheduling packages >> around with other capabilities, but I can't find any pointers at this >> moment. > > well I use org-mode too but only found a tutorial that describes on how > to save the dates to appt in order to get notified. It would be nice if > I could use directly org-mode to send me the nofifications, but it > should be possible to call my own function cause I execute a popup. Well, yes, org-mode isn't really a replacement for all functions of the diary or appointment packages. But it integrates easily enough into those that I wouldn't want to duplicate the functionality separately. As I see it, there are a whole bunch of options here, any of which are fairly easy. One is just turn on appt and have org mode add your agenda items to it. Another is to run a timer in emacs that periodically displays your agenda. Or to run a cron job (or whatever periodic job scheduler is on your system) to mail you a copy of the agenda daily do something like extract your agenda and feed it to your cell phone. If you want emacs to do the notifications in real time, I'd use appt-mode; that's precisely what appt-mode is for.