Alarm programs - recommendations wanted
Chris G
cl at isbd.net
Wed Sep 17 09:38:48 UTC 2008
Having decided that there's no application out there that can manage
both my calendar/time management *and* my reminder/alarm requirements
I've decided to look for a dedicated alarm program. My requirements
are:-
Must run in the background or be driven by cron so that alarms
will appear regardless of what I'm doing (I will be running an X
desktop but that's the only guaranteed thing, actually not quite, Firefox
is always running too).
When an event is due I want to be able to pop up daily reminders
from a specified number of days before the event and to be able to
stop them when I have 'done' what is required. I'd like the
pop-up (flag, whatever) to be permanent until I acknowledge it,
something like an icon in the Gnome Panel would be OK.
Events need to be specified by date, time of day is unlikely to be
significant. For most things a yearly repeat would be fine (e.g.
a 'birthday' type reminder), I also have several which are
quaterly but I'm prepared to deal with them by setting up four
annual reminders if necessary.
Kalarm seems to fulfil most of my criteria - any other ideas? Is
there something more 'Gnome friendly' or generic maybe?
A PIM or groupware application which can do this might be of interest
but I will *not* be running it all the time so note the first
criterion above.
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Chris Green
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