## ReminderFox - Info

### Events

> 'Events' are reminders which have single occurrence or may repeat and have at least a start date/time. ReminderFox can add a notification to an event, so the user will be warned in time.
> A 'remind until completed' makes sure no reminder will be lost.
> See also an example how to use the different settings: Tax payments

#### Reminder Options

> Reminders have a number of different options that can be set to change their behavior.

> 1. Description - This is the description of the reminder which shows up in your reminder list.
> 2. Notes - If you click the Notes icon button, you can enter in additional notes for your reminder. These notes will show will also show up in the reminder tooltip when you hover over the item in the list.

>    > Date / Time add to Notes: - Sometime the Notes should have the date/time added with new information. This is easily done with placing the cursor to the position where to add date/time and pressing key [F8]. This adds f.e: [February 9 10:37 AM]

> 3. Date - Set the date you want the reminder to occur. You can enter in any starting date. Note that you can also double click any date on the calendar widget to add a reminder for that date.
> 4. Time - You can choose to have your reminder occur All Day (such as a birthday) or at a particular time (such as an appointment). If you uncheck the `All Day` option you can enter a specific time. You can select any time from the populated pull down list that contains the most common times. You can also type any time directly into the Time textbox for more specific times (example: 8:33 AM)
> 5. Repeat - Leave this unchecked for one-off, non-repeating reminders -- example: "Return library book". If you check this option, then you can select different options to set how you want to be reminded.

>    > See below "Set Repeat for Reminders"

> 6. Show alarm popup - Check this option if you want to have a reminder notification alert you at a specified time prior to the event. You can select to have an alarm popup any number of minutes, hours, or days before the reminder occurs. You can select any time from the pre-populated list of common times or directly enter any number into the textbox for more specific entries (37 minutes).
> 7. Categories - this is used to be able to group events (or todo's also) using descriptive attributes. Reminderfox supports multiple items per event which have to be separated by comma.
>    The categories can be entered manually or selected by using the pull-down menu.
>    This will be activated with the icon next to the textbox. The opened menu has two sections:
>    1. the top range has to 'Standard' categories
>    2. the lower section has the 'Other' categories
>       The categories are managed with last menu selection "Manage categories".
>       A detailed description is here Options: Categories
>       See also: Filtering of Reminders
> 8. Important - This is for those extra-special events that you can't miss, like your wife's birthday. These reminders will show up highlighted in red in the Reminders list, as well as in the tooltip and status bar.
> 9. Remind Daily Until Completed - This option causes the reminder to continue to remind you until it has been completed. This means that once a reminder occurs, it will continue to show up each following day until such time as you mark the reminder as `Completed` or delete it. This is useful for things where you want to keep reminding yourself until you actually do it, like "remember to call Mom".

#### Set Repeat for Reminders

> Repeat with the 'Add Reminder' dialog let you set a broad range of how for an event/todo a reminder will be issued.
> With the main dialog for adding an event or todo the 'Repeat' box controls if at all a reminder will be enabled or not. If enabled, the pull-down menu gives the following options:

> 1. Yearly - this event happens on the same date every year (like a birthday)
> 2. Yearly by day - this event happens on the same day every year such as Mother's Day (Second Sunday of May)
> 3. Monthly - this event happens on the same date every month (like a rent payment on the 30th of each month)
> 4. Monthly by day - this event happens on the same day every month.
> 5. Weekly - this event happens on the same day every week
> 6. Biweekly - Alternating - this event happens every other week
> 7. Custom ... - this will allow more settings as can be seen with next figure:

> Additionally to the selected base interval (first pull down menu, eg. 'Monthly by day') a different sequence for the reminder can be selected (here 'every 3 month').
> The lower selection allows to set how long a repetition will be issued or to set a 'forever' reminder.

#### More >>

> Using the button [More >>] will show more options for an event and it changes it's function and title to [<< Less]. The 'more' section will be shown automatically with events (and todos) if it has items set like having an invitation / meeting to be held at a specific location, or an event has an URL set.

> - Location - To complement an event the location for a meeting can be entered to that textbox. The icon right to the texbox gives access directly to Google Maps for the location of the event.
>   Using the textbox with a normal URL will allow to open a web page directly -- this is similar to the next URL item.
> - URL - Entering a complete URL to the textbox, the icon right to the textbox gives access directly to the web page.

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