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From: Carlos Sosa <gnusosa@gnusosa.net>
Subject: Re: Best practices to get reminders?
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 20:11:07 -0700
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Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> writes:

> How do other people handle this? Is everyone else opening and working on
> their org files daily so that this becomes a non-issue?

  Have you tried (org-agenda-to-appt) and (appt-activate t)?
  If you do end up using those functions, and you're using Emacs 24.x,
  checkout desktop notifications:
  https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Desktop-Notifications.html

  - Carlos