I'm looking for a way to have emacs send me desktop notifications (on Windows 10) for appointments in my org file. I did find a way to be notified within emacs (https://sachachua.com/blog/2007/11/setting-up-appointment-reminders-in-org/) and also how to have a desktop notification on Mac (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-02/msg00644.html ) and also on Linux (Good methods for setting up alarms (audio + visual) triggered by org-mode events? ) but not on Windows. Can anyone help me with that maybe through Windows native message boxes or Autohotkeys? Thanks!
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Found a solution buried in this video: https://vimeo.com/16533939 It uses a visual basic code that popups up a message showing the title of your event. Here's the VB code (I put it in a file named PopUp.vbs):
On Error Resume Next
Msgbox wscript.Arguments(0),0,"Agenda Reminder"
and here's the configuration needed in your .emacs or .spacemacs file (you need to modify the path to the VB file accordingly):
;; Enabling the "appt" Windows notifier
;; https://vimeo.com/16533939
;; Get appointments for today
(defun my-org-agenda-to-appt ()
"Rebuild all appt reminders"
(interactive)
(setq appt-time-msg-list nil)
(run-at-time "24:01" nil 'my-org-agenda-to-appt)
(let ((org-deadline-warning-days 0))
(org-agenda-to-appt)))
;;; Disabled so that I can open multiple emacs without org loading agenda files
(appt-activate t)
;; 5 minutes warning
(setq appt-message-warning-time '60)
(setq appt-display-interval '15)
;; Update appt each time agenda is opened
(add-hook 'org-finalize-agenda-hook 'my-org-agenda-to-appt)
;; Setup agenda popup, we tell appt to use window, and replace default function
(setq appt-display-format 'window)
(setq appt-disp-window-function (function my-appt-disp-window))
(defun my-appt-disp-window (min-to-app new-time msg)
(save-window-excursion
(shell-command
(concat
"c:/Windows/System32/cscript.exe //nologo c:/Dropbox/ToDo/PopUp.vbs \"" msg "\"")nil nil)))