Re: [Usability] improving alarm productivity

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 23:51 +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> Andre Klapper wrote:
> 
> > well, the term "snooze" implies to only postpone it for a short time. if
> > you want to postpone something for a day (or something like that), i
> > would ask you to edit the appointment data, instead of using the snooze
> > function. (at least this was always my feeling about it when using evo.)
> 
> I think it is very practical to be able to "snooze" longer. In Outlook I 
> often use this function to get reminders a couple of days later. I see 
> no reason that it should not be possible. It saves my time.

Indeed, I often snooze reminders by at least a day, too.  Particularly
useful for things like birthday reminders, when I'm usually just setting
the alarm to remind myself to buy a card/present 'sometime this week'.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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