"Daniel Clemente" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > to me, appt is still rather uncomfortable; maybe because I don't > know how to use it correctly. What I have found is: > > If you don't notice a reminder message (for instance because you > are away from your computer for hours), the reminder goes away and you > never see it. appt might ask for a confirmation. > > How can you go from the appointment reminder to the org file which > describes it?
My setup sets up reminders for today only. The run-at-time line refreshes the appointments tomorrow if I leave Emacs running overnight. The appointments (for me) are all viewable on the agenda. Anything with a time that shows up in the agenda for today sets an appointment alarm. The first thing I do when returning to Emacs is check the agenda for today - that's just a habit I have. I don't normally have more than 1 or 2 appointments in a day and most days have no appointments. I sit in front of Emacs all day though and the beep reminder from the appointment works great for me. Other people have setups that pop-up a window when the appointment alarm occurs - you can find details by searching the list archives. > > Maybe it's 23:00 h and you have one appointment not for today, but > for tomorrow; but appt shows you only the ones for today. How do you > make it show just „the next one"? The appointments from org-mode are in the agenda. If you look at the week agenda (C-c C-a a w) and have it set up to you always display today forward the appointment is pretty obvious. The setup for that is (setq org-agenda-start-on-weekday nil) > > In fact, how can you see the next appointments? (Even if they are > for next week) Appointments are just for today. I'd look ahead at my agenda for scheduled items. Repeated scheduled items show up on each day in the agenda. > > How can you make that appt checks your agenda every N hours? > As long as emacs is running the appointment list is active. Each time I change the agenda it refreshes the appointments for me. > appt displays the reminder at the modeline. What happens if, just > after the message, you receive other messages? The reminder can also > get lost. It displays the appointment multiple times (and beeps) for me. At 12 min, 9 min, 6 min, 3 min, and 0 min. The modeline has the pending appointment (App't in 4 min) during this entire period. > > > Do you find appt complete and nice to use? If so, how did you improve it? > Are there better methods? > It works great for me. It's not "in-my-face" so that it disrupts whatever I'm doing. The beep, message, and modeline is enough of a reminder and I just go to the org-entry from the agenda. HTH, Bernt _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
