Re: [O] Reminders with alarms

2011-09-08 Thread brian powell
*Recommend using flite (FestivalLite) for text-to-speech: cat blah.reminder | flite ** Could get really over-the-top and do something like this: http://gizmodo.com/5522802/twitter-chumby-and-a-cuckoo-bird-walk-into-a-clock?tag=chumby --you could use the Twitter API and send OrgMode Tweets

Re: [O] Reminders with alarms

2011-09-07 Thread Eric S Fraga
Stephen Nelson-Smith sanel...@gmail.com writes: Hi there, I'm just starting to explore orgmode. I'm an experienced GTD-er (6 yrs) and have looked with interest at a few articles on using orgmode for this. The one area I can't seem to work out is how to set a reminder with an alarm and

Re: [O] Reminders with alarms

2011-09-07 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Wed, Sep 07 2011, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: Hi there, I'm just starting to explore orgmode. I'm an experienced GTD-er (6 yrs) and have looked with interest at a few articles on using orgmode for this. The one area I can't seem to work out is how to set a reminder with an alarm and

Re: [O] Reminders with alarms

2011-09-07 Thread Bernt Hansen
Stephen Nelson-Smith sanel...@gmail.com writes: Hi there, I'm just starting to explore orgmode. I'm an experienced GTD-er (6 yrs) and have looked with interest at a few articles on using orgmode for this. The one area I can't seem to work out is how to set a reminder with an alarm and

Re: [O] Reminders with alarms

2011-09-07 Thread Martyn Jago
Hi Stephen Nelson-Smith sanel...@gmail.com writes: Hi there, I'm just starting to explore orgmode. I'm an experienced GTD-er (6 yrs) and have looked with interest at a few articles on using orgmode for this. The one area I can't seem to work out is how to set a reminder with an alarm and

Re: [O] Reminders with alarms

2011-09-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
In debian, there's a cowsay package you can use to make the computer speak. Also packages that produce different types of beeps are available. So far as I now know, they would need to be run as part of a bash script or the equivalent within emacs in order to work though. On Wed, 7 Sep 2011,

[O] Reminders with alarms

2011-09-06 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
Hi there, I'm just starting to explore orgmode. I'm an experienced GTD-er (6 yrs) and have looked with interest at a few articles on using orgmode for this. The one area I can't seem to work out is how to set a reminder with an alarm and attach it to an entry. Suppose I have an entry like: **