It's useful for getting notifications for todo items and more flexible
than org-agenda-to-appt.
Here a summary:
- different warning periods for different todo-types
- fine grained warning periods (smallest unit is second)
- continue notifications, when deadline is overdue
- easy modification of timestamps (just one click, to say
"let's do it tomorrow")
- switch from "todo" to "done" by clicking on the notification window
- configurable notification types (email, notifications-notify, beep,
etc.)
- configurable notification period
- configurable notification duration
- crescendo notifications (be more aggressive, when time gets closer to
deadline)
There was a little thread about this subject:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/48832
Example usage:
(org-notify-add 'appt
'(:time "-1s" :period "20s" :duration 10
:actions (-message -ding))
'(:time "15m" :period "2m" :duration 100
:actions -notify/window)
'(:time "2h" :period "5m" :actions -message)
'(:time "1d" :actions -email))
This means for todo-items with `notify' property set to `appt': 1 day before
deadline, send a reminder-email, 2 hours before deadline, start to send
messages every 5 minutes, then, 15 minutes before deadline, start to pop up
notification windows every 2 minutes. The timeout of the window is set to
100 seconds. Finally, when deadline is overdue, send messages and make
noise.
* org.el (org-read-date): Don't mention `parse-time-weekdays'
and `parse-time-months' in the docstring.
This problem has been reported by Michael Heerdegen -- see
Emacs bug#11042 against 24.0.94.
* org-colview.el (org-columns-compute): Also consider inline
tasks when computing the sum.
TINYCHANGE
Thanks to Myles English for spotting this and for his patch,
this one is a slightly modified version of his.
* org-latex.el (org-export-as-latex): Fix bug in setting the
export directory according to the LaTeX options.
Thanks to A. Major for reporting this and to Christian Moe for suggesting a
fix.
lisp/org.el (org-scan-tags): Require todo-only argument, and document
that it should be the same one set by make-org-tags-matcher.
Fix documentation to explain that todo-only is really
not-done-todo-only.
(org-make-tags-matcher): If todo part of matcher starts with /!,
matcher now always checks that the TODO keyword is present and
is a not-done state. This matters e.g. for org-map-entries
which unlike org-scan-tags does not do its own separate todo-only
filtering. Added docs to explain matcher dependencies.
(org-map-entries): Make sure todo-only is correctly passed from
org-make-tags-matcher to org-scan-tags.
* lisp/org-clock.el: (org-clock-get-table-data): Make sure todo-only
does not leak when it is set by make-org-tags-macher.
* lisp/org-crypt.el: (org-encrypt-entries, org-decrypt-entries): Make
sure todo-only is correctly passed from org-make-tags-matcher to
org-scan-tags.
* contrib/lisp/contacts.el: (org-contacts-filter) : Make sure todo-only
is correctly passed from org-make-tags-matcher to org-scan-tags.
* contrib/lisp/org-export.el (org-export-as): Fix export with Babel
calls outside export scope by providing buffer's name holding full
data instead of the one holding its copy limited to scope.
* testing/lisp/test-org-export.el (test-org-export/export-scope): Add
a test.
* org.el (org-cycle-internal-local): Don't try to hide drawers
within subtrees in this function, it slows cycling down.
This comments the change made in commit
bb28480169
Thanks to Marcel Van der Boom for reporting this.
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-custom-commands-local-options):
Fix incorrect custom option definition.
Thanks to Joe Vornehm Jr. for this patch.
See http://patchwork.newartisans.com/patch/1231/
* org-colview.el (org-columns-display-here): Bugfix: use the date as the
value for the ITEM column when displaying a summary.
Thanks to Rasmus Rempling for reporting this and to Nick Dokos for digging
further.
* lisp/org-odt.el (org-odt-format-entity-caption): Enumerate
entities that have either a caption or a label.
(org-odt-label-styles, org-odt-category-map-alist): Add a
separator between sequence number and caption. Introduced two
new label styles for handling of math formula and math label.
(org-odt-format-label-definition)
(org-export-odt-format-formula): Propagate above changes.
* lisp/org-odt.el (org-export-odt-category-strings): New
custom variable.
(org-odt-category-map-alist): Modify interpretation. Don't
use the same field to double up as both a OpenDocument
variable and a category string. Entries in this list now
specify only the OpenDocument variable. Category strings are
obtained through an indirect lookup of
`org-export-odt-category-strings'. Use same OpenDocument
variables as what LibreOffice uses for various entities. Fix
docstring.
(org-odt-add-label-definition)
(org-odt-format-label-definition)
(org-odt-format-label-reference): Propagate above changes.
Fix for the following bug:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2012-03/msg00628.html
