Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

2015-04-13 Thread Leo Ufimtsev
| Intern Software Engineer @ Eclipse Team - Original Message - From: Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Sent: Monday, April 6, 2015 10:52:43 PM Subject: [O] Best practices to get reminders? Hello, I'm just starting to use org-mode. The first thing I'd like to use

Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

2015-04-11 Thread Manish
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: On 2015-04-08, at 11:55, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: Don't be ashamed, I'm sure we all use some software we're not proud of :) It's not that I'm ashamed, it's that apparently it is forbidden to talk about certain categories of software

Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

2015-04-11 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Manish mailtomanish.sha...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: On 2015-04-08, at 11:55, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: Don't be ashamed, I'm sure we all use some software we're not proud of :) It's not that I'm ashamed, it's that apparently it is forbidden

Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

2015-04-08 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Marcin Borkowski mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl writes: On 2015-04-07, at 06:09, Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote: At this point I have so much of my life (personal and professional) in Org files that yes, checking the Agenda isn't an issue anymore. It's the first thing I do in the

Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

2015-04-08 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2015-04-08, at 11:55, Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote: Don't be ashamed, I'm sure we all use some software we're not proud of :) It's not that I'm ashamed, it's that apparently it is forbidden to talk about certain categories of software on this list, at least if you don't

Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

2015-04-07 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2015-04-07, at 06:09, Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote: At this point I have so much of my life (personal and professional) in Org files that yes, checking the Agenda isn't an issue anymore. It's the first thing I do in the morning, and the last thing I do before knocking off

Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

2015-04-07 Thread Melleus
If you have an android phone, then you can use mobile-org for that. You would have all your org information available even on the road.

Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

2015-04-07 Thread Giuseppe Lipari
I use mobile org, and I synchronize it with google agenda. It works fine because I can look at my phone for appointments when I am not in front on my PC. Once the appointment is in google agenda, I can set reminders, but I could not find out how to do that directly from org-mode in emacs. Any

Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

2015-04-07 Thread Melleus
Then I do not quite understand you, sorry for noise. I have my phone with me even when I'm working on my PC and reminders only from the phone are enough for me. And more likely I get the phone with me rather then a PC, when going out for a coffee.

Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

2015-04-06 Thread Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
Nikolaus Rath writes: However, there's one thing where I feel lost. I don't expect to be editing my orgmode files on a daily basis (at least not yet), so how can I make sure that I don't miss an important deadline? It seems to me that it doesn't help much if instead of worrying to forget a

Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

2015-04-06 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org writes: Hello, I'm just starting to use org-mode. The first thing I'd like to use it for is to keep track of stuff that I need to do. Writing things up and calling up the agenda is easy enough, and I really like how-much functionality is available in what's

[O] Best practices to get reminders?

2015-04-06 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Hello, I'm just starting to use org-mode. The first thing I'd like to use it for is to keep track of stuff that I need to do. Writing things up and calling up the agenda is easy enough, and I really like how-much functionality is available in what's essentially a plain text document. However,

Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

2015-04-06 Thread Carlos Sosa
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

Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

2015-04-06 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Apr 06 2015, jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) wrote: Nikolaus Rath writes: However, there's one thing where I feel lost. I don't expect to be editing my orgmode files on a daily basis (at least not yet), so how can I make sure that I don't miss an important

Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

2015-04-06 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Apr 06 2015, Carlos Sosa gnus...@gnusosa.net wrote: 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

Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

2015-04-06 Thread Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
Nikolaus Rath writes: On Apr 06 2015, jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) wrote: Nikolaus Rath writes: However, there's one thing where I feel lost. I don't expect to be editing my orgmode files on a daily basis (at least not yet), so how can I make sure that I don't