Pop Up Notifications

users
#1

My esteemed listmates,

I’m wondering if in Libre Writer or Calc a user can set up a sound or
pop-up notification of an approaching deadline which sounds or pop-sup when
you power on the PC or while Windows is open even though Word or Excel is
*not* open?

Ex. Due date for auto tire rotation – You don’t have Libre Writer or Calc
open but Windows 7 is open. A sound (e.g. .mp3) launches or a box pops-up
alerting you that in one week you need to rotate your tires.

This is just an example so please don’t explore the issue of rotating
tires! :slight_smile:

I was reading/watching these Excel suggestions (below) but they don’t seem
to answer my questions about alerting sounds or pops-ups if the program
is not open.

https://excel.tips.net/T003179_Alerts_About_Approaching_Due_Dates.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiDfI4-kngw

Has anyone set these kinds of notification?

Thanks so much.

Charles.

#2

Google calendar has notifications or can send an email, so you'll know
when to rotate your tires. :wink:

#3

If you use Thunderbird for your eMail add the extension "ReminderFox" - It does this kind of thing perfectly!!

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
Linux allows people to set-up "cron jobs" which use almost no power or
resources. DEs usually have some simple app that can run count-down alarms
(like egg-timers) or daily, or weekly or whatever or non-repeating alarms
with different ring-tones, messages or launch different apps or run scripts
or whatever.

Microsoft's philosophy is to have massively bloated heavy programs that do
almost everything that almost no-one wants to do and use a massive amount
of resources to do it.

The OpenSource way is to have sleeker apps that are stream-lined for
specific purposes and that all play together well.

So LibreOffice doesn't have an email-client/calendar so it allows users to
use a wide-range of tools to do those jobs. People who want a tiny, fast,
light-weight e-mail client might choose Claws but maybe need a heavy-duty
calendar and thus use a project-management tool - or they might choose some
other combination.

MS Outlook does both but it's very limited and about a decade or two behind
almost all other email-clients and it's not up to project-managent nor up
to being fast and light.

So the open-source way is MUCH more stream-lined, flexible and scaleable
but needs people to be willing to explore rather than just accept what they
are given.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: