I have emacs w/ org running at all times, and I use a hook with kdialog to make popup notifications when appointments are due.
I adapted this from someone else's post on using Zenity, I wish I remembered who so I could credit them. Here is a snippet from my .emacs: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; For org appointment reminders ;; Get appointments for today (defun my-org-agenda-to-appt () (interactive) (setq appt-time-msg-list nil) (let ((org-deadline-warning-days 0)) ;; will be automatic in org 5.23 (org-agenda-to-appt))) (my-org-agenda-to-appt) (appt-activate t) (run-at-time "24:01" nil 'my-org-agenda-to-appt) ;; 5 minute warning (setq appt-message-warning-time '60) (setq appt-display-interval '15) ;; Update appt each time agenda opened. (add-hook 'org-finalize-agenda-hook 'my-org-agenda-to-appt) ;; Setup zenify, we tell appt to use window, and replace default function (setq appt-display-format 'window) (setq appt-disp-window-function (function my-appt-disp-window)) (defun my-appt-disp-window (min-to-app new-time msg) (save-window-excursion (shell-command (concat "/usr/bin/kdialog --msgbox '" msg "' &") nil nil))) )) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy! On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:55:48PM -0400, Bernt Hansen wrote: > Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celose...@gmail.com> writes: > > > By the way, how can I use the org-agenda-to-appt? When I run it a > > message saying "No event to add" is returned -- I do have some > > scheduled events on my gtd.org file and this file is part of the > > org-agenda-files list. > > As I understand it org-agenda-to-appt picks up tasks from your > org-agenda-files that have an active timestamp for today. If you have a > scheduled, deadline, or active timestamp for 12:00 it will create > reminders in the remind package for those and let remind handle them. > > I don't use dates/times in headlines so I don't know if it works for > that case. > > For my setup remind starts bugging me 12 minutes before the appointment. > > -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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 _______________________________________________ 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