Re: Reminders with alarms

[Martyn Jago <martyn.jago@btinternet.com>]

Hi

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.

I use the growl notification system (on MAC) along with todochiku.el for
simple timer notification out of Emacs. Growl can be set to 'speak' the
notification (not sure about other sounds). 

todochiku also works with (snarl/libnotify) on other OSs.

The command todochiku-message allows you to add a notification to a hook
such as org-timer-done-hook (in your init file)...

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
 (defun mj-notify-timer-done ()
  (todochiku-message "Title here" "Further text here"
 (todochiku-icon 'bell)))
 (add-hook 'org-timer-done-hook  'mj-notify-timer-done))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Regards

Martyn