Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@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