Hi :) Linux allows people to set-up "cron jobs" which use almost no power or resources. DEs usually have some simple app that can run count-down alarms (like egg-timers) or daily, or weekly or whatever or non-repeating alarms with different ring-tones, messages or launch different apps or run scripts or whatever.
Microsoft's philosophy is to have massively bloated heavy programs that do almost everything that almost no-one wants to do and use a massive amount of resources to do it. The OpenSource way is to have sleeker apps that are stream-lined for specific purposes and that all play together well. So LibreOffice doesn't have an email-client/calendar so it allows users to use a wide-range of tools to do those jobs. People who want a tiny, fast, light-weight e-mail client might choose Claws but maybe need a heavy-duty calendar and thus use a project-management tool - or they might choose some other combination. MS Outlook does both but it's very limited and about a decade or two behind almost all other email-clients and it's not up to project-managent nor up to being fast and light. So the open-source way is MUCH more stream-lined, flexible and scaleable but needs people to be willing to explore rather than just accept what they are given. Regards from Tom :) On 24 Apr 2017 23:27, "Ian Whitfield" <whitfi...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > If you use Thunderbird for your eMail add the extension "ReminderFox" - It > does this kind of thing perfectly!! > > > On 04/24/2017 07:13 PM, charles meyer wrote: > >> My esteemed listmates, >> >> >> I’m wondering if in Libre Writer or Calc a user can set up a sound or >> pop-up notification of an approaching deadline which sounds or pop-sup >> when >> you power on the PC or while Windows is open even though Word or Excel is >> *not* open? >> >> >> Ex. Due date for auto tire rotation – You don’t have Libre Writer or Calc >> open but Windows 7 is open. A sound (e.g. .mp3) launches or a box >> pops-up >> alerting you that in one week you need to rotate your tires. >> >> >> This is just an example so please don’t explore the issue of rotating >> tires! :) >> >> >> I was reading/watching these Excel suggestions (below) but they don’t >> seem >> to answer my questions about alerting sounds or pops-ups if the >> program >> is not open. >> >> >> https://excel.tips.net/T003179_Alerts_About_Approaching_Due_Dates.html >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiDfI4-kngw >> >> >> Has anyone set these kinds of notification? >> >> >> Thanks so much. >> >> >> Charles. >> >> > -- > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-uns > ubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
