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Re: [O] notifications for todo items
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Nick Dokos |
Subject: |
Re: [O] notifications for todo items |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:06:56 -0500 |
Peter Münster <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23 2012, Nick Dokos wrote:
>
> > what does this do that appt.el (and its org interface) does not?
>
> Sorry, I've totally forgotten to write about my motivation, to create
> such an org-notify module.
>
> Here a summary:
> - different warning periods for different todo-types
> - fine grained warning periods (smallest unit is second)
> - continue notifications, when deadline is overdue
> - easy modification of timestamps (just one click, to say
> "let's do it tomorrow")
> - switch from "todo" to "done" by clicking on the notification window
> - configurable notification types (email, notifications-notify, beep,
> etc.)
> - configurable notification period
> - configurable notification duration
> - crescendo notifications (be more aggressive, when time gets closer to
> deadline)
>
> There was a little thread about this subject:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/48832
>
>
> Example usage:
> (org-notify-add 'appt
> '(:time "-1s" :period "20s" :duration 10
> :actions (org-notify-action-message
> org-notify-action-ding))
> '(:time "15m" :period "2m" :duration 100
> :actions org-notify-action-notify)
> '(:time "2h" :period "5m"
> :actions org-notify-action-message)
> '(:time "1d" :actions org-notify-action-email))
>
> This means for todo-items with `notify' property set to `appt': 1 day before
> deadline, send a reminder-email, 2 hours before deadline, start to send
> messages every 5 minutes, then, 15 minutes before deadline, start to pop up
> notification windows every 2 minutes. The timeout of the window is set to
> 100 seconds. Finally, when deadline is overdue, send messages and make
> noise.
>
Thanks! That's very helpful. I'll take a look in my copious (cough!)
spare time.
Nick
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- Re: [O] notifications for todo items, Peter Münster, 2012/02/25
- Re: [O] notifications for todo items, Nick Dokos, 2012/02/25
- Re: [O] notifications for todo items, Nick Dokos, 2012/02/26
- [O] optimisation of org-notify (was: notifications for todo items), Peter Münster, 2012/02/26
- Re: [O] notifications for todo items, Nicolas Goaziou, 2012/02/26
- Re: [O] notifications for todo items, Peter Münster, 2012/02/26