I have started using Google Calendar for such things. You can set up more than one alert for an upcoming event, anything from minutes to weeks in advance, and specify alert by popup, email or SMS (or any combination). And you can define recurring events - I have started adding birthdays there too.
I've not tested the specific functionality of requesting a popup to be generated at a time the computer is off. On 2 June 2014 22:04, Leo <li...@fractal.me.uk> wrote: > So after much browsing it appears this is a "feature" of Evolution. > Which means I need to find a new tool to remind me of things. Does > anyone have any recommendations? I'm looking for something that I can > use to remind me of things like car tax being due. > > Leo > > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 20:25 +0100, Leo wrote: > > Does anybody use Evolution's calendar? If so do you know how to get > > Evolution to show a reminder even if the computer wasn't on at the time > > of the reminder? E.g. I have an all day appointment scheduled for 31st > > May, and a Custom reminder to pop up an alert 14 days before hand. I > > still haven't received any notification though. > > > > Thanks, > > Leo > > > > > > > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -- best regards, 웃 Victor Churchill, Bournemouth
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