Re: removal of appointments

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Mar 12, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Richard Riley wrote:

>
> I use
>
> (run-at-time nil 300 'org-agenda-to-appt)
> (appt-activate t)
>
> to add org tasks to emacs appointment handling.
>
> Is there a way for org to remove these entries when marked as done or
> cancelled?

There is org-after-todo-state-change-hook which is run after
a state changes.  You could check

  (member state org-done-keywords)

and if yes, refresh the appointment list with

   (org-agenda-to-appt t)

This will re-generate the entire task list, you
will probably feel the impact.  I don't know a way to remove
individual entries.

>
> While on the subject, is there any concept of an "alarm" in
> org? Or is this just a scheduled item? It would be nice of there was a
> way to trigger specific functions based on the tags  -e.g play wave  
> file
> for a reminder of a task of a certain type. Is there something like  
> this
> anyone can recommend or point me to? I would like to configure org  
> as my
> alarm clock too!

Isn't this exactly what appt does??????

- Carsten