CCATP #797 for July 9, 2024, and I’m your host, Allison Sheridan. In case you missed the announcement, Adam Engst of TidBITS is now a member of the Podfeet Podcasts family as a continuing contributor to Chit Chat Across the Pond.
In this week’s episode, we talked about why Adam believes we need persistent calendar and reminder notifications. Adam is hyper-focused and when he’s writing it’s not uncommon for him to easily dismiss a notification of an upcoming event.
Articles referenced in the conversation:
- A Call to Alarms: Why We Need Persistent Calendar and Reminder Notifications.
- In Your Face Provides Persistent Notifications for Events and Tasks
- Just Due It: Persistent Notifications for Tasks – TidBITS
- CalAlarm app Adam is testing for iOS
Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: CCATP_2024_07_09
Yeah, I know, in the audio it says #793 — that’s because I counted in the CCATP feed in which I just erased all of the PBS episodes. It really is #797 and the preview is cached with the wrong number so…
In the words of the Podmom, “Some day she’ll get it right.”
For me in Ventura – it was a simple task to add sound to reminder notifications. Then when the reminder banner notification comes up you will hear a sound and that might be helpful. You might check in system settings > sound – to see if that could help activate the sound that you mentioned you were not hearing. Also it seems there is no way to control the particular reminder sound – that seems baked in.
Also – another tip is that with various alert sounds – in Ventura you can flash the screen along with the alert sound and this also might be helpful – although this does not seem tied to Apple reminders.
That makes sense, but both of us have sound turned on for reminders in system settings and neither of us ever hear a sound. It seems it’s not working properly now.
That sounds like a good idea, and I just ran a test that showed they do play, at least on my MacBook Air (the power’s out here right now, so I can’t check my iMac).
The problem is that all notifications play the same inoffensive sound, and I get a lot of reminder notifications, so I quickly learned to ignore them.
If I could set a specific sound for reminders and events that I absolutely didn’t want to miss, I could have a klaxon go off instead, and that I wouldn’t miss.