Calendar alarm snooze improvement

asked 2014-05-16 17:21:37 +0300

dsilveira gravatar image

updated 2014-10-23 16:50:23 +0300

eric gravatar image

The current snooze function of a calendar event is not very usefull, and should be improved.

you set an event alarm to remind you 2 days before,

observed behaviour:

  • you snooze it, and 5 mins later it reminds you again.

expected behaviour:

  • you snooze it, and tomorrow it reminds you again.

The other time periods have the same problem. So what I propose is simple, and is what I consider sane:

calendar event alarm snooze should reset the alarm to half the time

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Alarm is to snooze, as reminder is to ... remind-me-later?

I'm splitting hairs here, but I see that there's a semantic difference between snooze and postponing a reminder. A snooze kicks in after the actual event, while a reminder has to occur before the event.

TBH, I've never stumbled across "snooze" in calendar context. Maybe it's just me, but that doesn't seem correct? I agree with @dsilveira that the current behaviour isn't quite right.

Okw ( 2014-05-16 17:54:04 +0300 )edit
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The ability to set more than one reminder, e.g. 2days before, 1day before and 2 hours before, would be great!

drummer12 ( 2014-05-19 20:13:18 +0300 )edit

I disagree with "reset the alarm to half the time". "Snooze" is in my opinion something like "not now".

Let me pic up @Tuke 's example from https://together.jolla.com/question/54569/suggestion-more-versatile-options-for-calendar-event-reminder/ (slightly modified):

I'm going to a trip starting at 06:00 on day X, but I need a reminder for the evening before the trip to start packing. I make an alarm "trip" to day X, but I set the alarm to the day before the event at 20:00. Let's say I didn't make it out of work in time. So when the alarm fires, I'm still driving home by subway. In this case I would like an option "give me a few more minutes". So picking the snooze option and having the reminder ringing 5 minutes later would be perfect in this situation. "Reset the alarm to half the time" on the other hand, would lead to an alarm ringing at 01:00 in the night. This would not be good in this situation.

Maybe the best solution would be to extend the Snooze pulley menu to something like the following set of options:

  • snooze for 2 hours
  • snooze for 1 hour
  • snooze for 30 minutes
  • snooze for 10 minutes
  • snooze for 5 minutes
  • snooze for 3 minutes

In this case the user can pick the snooze time, best appropriate to the current situation.

ralooyar ( 2014-11-10 21:38:43 +0300 )edit

Very interesting: @axaq wrote as comment to https://together.jolla.com/question/433/calendar-notification/ :

You can change the default snooze time at the command line with timedclient-qt5 --set-snooze=< secs >

I have set it myself to 10min and it worked for calender alarms and clock alarms.

ralooyar ( 2014-11-10 21:52:46 +0300 )edit

@ralooyar, I see what you mean, but I can see that going wrong too easily. Maybe with a remorse timer it could work as you suggest

dsilveira ( 2014-11-11 04:35:55 +0300 )edit