org-alert
Provides notifications for scheduled or deadlined agenda entries. This is a forked version from the original by spegoraro that checks how far away the events are before notifying.
Command overview
org-alert-check
Check for and display agenda entries that are active and due.
org-alert parses your org agenda for the current day looking for any
headlines that are scheduled or contain a deadline that aren't marked
with any of your DONE
state keywords.
org-alert-enable
Enable periodic deadline checking.
Sets a timer which periodically calls org-alert-check
. The
interval can be set by changing the org-alert-interval
(defaults to
300s).
org-alert-disable
Disable periodic deadline checking.
Cancels any timers set up with the org-alert-enable
function.
Installation
Manually
The original version linked above is the one in Melpa, so if you want to use this version you have to install manually.
The original instructions are "Clone the repo somewhere you will remember and then add it to your load path:"
(add-to-list 'load-path "path/to/org-alert")
(require 'org-alert)
But I just put
(load "path/to/org-alert")
in my config. Probably the original instructions are better.
Configuration
org-alert uses the excellent
alert package from John Wiegley
to present its alerts. This defaults to using the emacs message
function for displaying notifications, to change it to something
prettier set the alert-default-style
variable to one of the options
listed here.
To get system notifications like the screenshot use the following:
(setq alert-default-style 'libnotify)
You can even define your own styles!
Some other configuration options I like:
(setq org-alert-interval 60 ; how often to check for tasks, in seconds
org-alert-notify-cutoff 10 ; how long before an event to notify, in minutes
alert-persist-idle-time 0 ; make notifications persist
alert-fade-time 600 ; don't fade alerts for 10 minutes)
Custom titles
org-alert uses the title Org Agenda
by default. You can set this to
something else by changing the org-alert-notification-title
variable. Use this if you'd like to customise the display of org
notifications when using a daemon such as
dunst.
Custom regexp for searching agenda entries
org-alert searches for agenda entries with 'Sched' or 'Deadline' word
by default. You can set any other regexp you wish using
the org-alert-headline-regexp
variable.