iCal’s Stupid Alarms
Posted March 31st, 2005 @ 12:02am by Erik J. Barzeski
I have an iCal alarm for "Pay Rent" on the last day of every month. My April notice (March 31) just came up. I'm about to go to bed (to read, actually) as it's midnight now.
Where the heck is the option "Remind me later…" or "Remind me in 12 hours" or "Remind me in the morning"?
Yes, I realize I could change "Pay Rent" to have a time (9am) instead of being an "all-day event." But that's just silly. (Also, for whatever reason, the "all-day" checkbox is dimmed when I select the April 10 event, so, moot point.)
Stupid iCal.
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Posted 31 Mar 2005 at 2:40am #
The later options are located in the middle button icon in the reminder window.
The thing that bugs me with the reminders is that iCal keeps bouncing even after dismissing reminder. You have to switch application foreground to iCal for it to stop bouncing.
Posted 31 Mar 2005 at 4:23am #
Have you tried going to iCal Preferences and setting Day, Starts at: 08:00, or whatever?
Not sure if this works as I'd have to wait until midnight to test it...
Posted 31 Mar 2005 at 4:46am #
If only iCal supported Growl, you could just make them into sticky notifications…
Posted 31 Mar 2005 at 9:25am #
Josh, I know where the "Later" options are, but they're things like 15 minutes (12:15am), 1 hour (1am), or 1 day (12am the next day). They're useless.
Day starts at 8:00 is how I have it set. But that's just for your work day, so it does not affect "all-day" tasks.
Posted 31 Mar 2005 at 10:06am #
Well, if you're going to bed, then wouldn't "remind me in 15 minutes" be equivalent to "remind me tomorrow"?
Posted 31 Mar 2005 at 10:20am #
No. One of my backup scripts quits applications and closes windows.
Posted 01 Apr 2005 at 3:00pm #
The "remind me later" option ... thats why I like Entourage or prefer it over Mail / iCal / Address Book.