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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reminders with alarms
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:25:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vct4uxon.fsf@norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABqtqVTV5=NVmKBGeU46Yqoa-U=-9+DxS_8M=0Od4xfhJC7U_w@mail.gmail.com> (Stephen Nelson-Smith's message of "Wed, 7 Sep 2011 06:39:56 +0100")

Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm just starting to explore orgmode.  I'm an experienced GTD-er (6
> yrs) and have looked with interest at a few articles on using orgmode
> for this.  The one area I can't seem to work out is how to set a
> reminder with an alarm and attach it to an entry.
>
> Suppose I have an entry like:
>
> ** My project
> *** My action 1 :home:
> *** My action 2 :follow up:
>
> I would like to be able to set a reminder that makes a visible (and
> maybe audible) alert - in say 4 hrs, 2 days, at 1530 next wednesday
> etc.  I see that I can set schedules for when to start work, but I've
> been unable to get it to remind me at all.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> S.

This is what I use:

http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Reminders

-Bernt

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-07 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-07  5:39 Reminders with alarms Stephen Nelson-Smith
2011-09-07  7:40 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-09-07  8:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-09-07 16:25 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2011-09-07 19:05 ` Martyn Jago
2011-09-08  3:10   ` Jude DaShiell
2011-09-08 15:42     ` brian powell
2011-10-03 11:45       ` Ivan Vilata i Balaguer

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