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System notifications of org agenda items
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Org-alert expected behaviour #21

Closed pseudomyne closed 3 years ago

pseudomyne commented 5 years ago

Hi. I'm struggling with notifications for org deadline or scheduled events. Basically, what I want is to be notified (dunst here) at the time I scheduled / deadlined any agenda file entry.

Is this what org-alert does ? It seems to me that it is not the case : org-alert just notifies periodically, but not starting at the time specified in the entry. Am I right ? If so, what do you recommend me fot this basic need ? appt ? Org wild notifier ? I find it confusing that this need is not fullfilled in default org-agenda settings.

ntBre commented 3 years ago

This use case should now be handled after https://github.com/spegoraro/org-alert/commit/e9293b924b61de8fda42fd4bc5717f40e2db31d4, which added org-alert-notify-cutoff to let you set how long before an event the notification is sent. The default is 10 minutes before, but you should be able to set it to 0 to send the alert at the scheduled time.