## ReminderFox - Info

### Notifications - Alerts / Alarms

> Events and Todo's stored to Reminderfox alerts the user in different ways. The statusbar is used for upcoming events and tooltips with an overview about the events and todo's are initialized from there. The MS Windows environment has an alter slider dialog, the interval is configurable by the user.
> Also there is a notification dialog coming up at the specified time interval before the event occurs. It also give choices how to proceed with the event/alarm.
> Another feature of Reminderfox is the 'Quick-Alarm' used for events coming up shortly. Those alarms are kept separately from the other events. They are not stored to the normal event list and also only exist during the current session.

#### Statusbar

> Reminderfox uses the statusbar of it's host application for different purpose:
> 1. Reminders
>    The status bar will indicate reminders. If there is a reminder for the current day, it will appear on the status bar. The color of the ribbon icon on the status bar changes, according to the status of reminders.

> > If there is a reminder for the current day, the ribbon is red.
> > If there are upcoming reminders, the ribbon is blue.
> > If there are no current or upcoming reminders, the ribbon will be greyed out.

> 1. Tooltips
>    You can hover over the ribbon icon to get a tooltip of all of the current and upcoming reminders.
>    see also Options: Tooltip
> 1. Alert Slider
>    Additionally, an alert slider periodically appear (on Windows only) with the current and upcoming reminders.
> 2. Contextmenu
>    This calls different functions like Options or the About dialog
>    see context menu
> 3. 'Drag and Drop'
>    The statusbar is the 'drop' area for 'Drag&Drop' features used to add invitations received by mail.
>    see Invitations [iCal / ICS]

#### Alarms

> You can set alarms to show up on or before an event occurs. At the specified time an alarm dialog will pop up:

> You can simply acknowledge the alarm or select a number of other options from the pull-down menu.
> 1. Snooze -You can choose to Snooze the alarm to be reminded at a later time. Select the time you want to snooze for or directly enter it into the textbox, and then click the snooze button. You will be reminded again after that number of minutes has passed.
> 2. Acknowledge - this simply acknowledges the reminder and closes the alarm window.
> 3. Mark as Complete - this marks this reminder as complete, and closes the alarm window.
> 4. Delete - this deletes the reminder and closes the alarm window
> 5. Open... - this opens up the reminder in the reminder list dialog.

#### Quick Alarms

> You can create a Quick Alarm via the status bar icon's context menu. This allows you to quickly set an alarm to be reminded of something that will happen shortly. Example: "check pot roast" in 20 minutes. Also for the weak-willed, like me, they can also be used to reminder yourself to get off the internet after a specified period of time. Note that these are just quick temporary alarms, and are not added to your reminders. Enter in when you want to be notified:

> After that period has passed, you will get an alarm popup:

> You can snooze the alarm or simply acknowledge it.

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