Need more Snooze options!!!

Aero · 01-09-04, 09:38 AM

This has been a gripe of mine since day 1. I was skimming pocketpcthoughts, came across an old thread with folks complaining about the same problems. With no solutions on the thread at pocketpcthoughts, I figured I would post here. To save time, I copied the text from another user which sums up my problems 100%. Any solutions???:

"OK, how many people are like me and are frustrated with the PocketPC's defaults for Snooze options? (5 minutes, 10, 15, 30, 1 hour, 2 hours, 8 hours, 1 day, and 1 week) It's INCREDIBLY annoying to want to snooze an alarm for 12 hours and not be able to do it. For example, it's 7:20pm eastern time right now. I want to snooze an alarm that just went off until 7:20 TOMORROW morning. Apparently, the only way to do this is to have the $&%#* alarm go off in 2 hours, then again in 2 more, and then snooze it for an additional 8. Another situation that's annoying: A work alarm I have snoozed goes off at 9am on Friday. I want it to go off at 9am on Monday. With the PPC, apparently it's "no can do." My only option is to snooze for 1 day at a time and have it go off twice more over the weekend. What a pain in the arse!

Does anyone know how to do this? I'm thinking it's got to be a relatively easy thing to manage, either through an add-on like PI or AF, or via the registry. Outlook for the desktop is so nice because you can snooze for additional times of 4 hours, 12 hours, 2 days, 3 days, etc.

Does anyone have a workaround, fix, or suggestion for this? Is there a program out there that does this? If not, would one of you able-bodied programmers please write a fix for this??? I think it's a huge failing of the PPC. Anyone else agree? (Or disagree?)

brobinson · 01-09-04, 11:07 AM

Set these things up as recurring tasks instead. When the reminder goes off, you check the task as done and a new one is created for you based on the recurrance schedule. I have a reminder every weekday at 8 am to remind me to change the backup tapes in our server. After I do it, I check it off and another one appears for the next weekday.

Aero · 01-09-04, 11:37 AM

brobinson - Your suggestion is good for repetitive tasks, but if I have a 1-time to do (as most of my tasks are) this would not work.

I just want the same options on my PDA for snoozing, opening items as I do on my PC.

Anyone have a suggestion?

Aero · 01-28-05, 09:52 AM

bump

-Aero

StanleyR1 · 01-28-05, 11:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aero

bump

-Aero

I can only say that I share your frustration. I'd like to see a solution that lets you snooze to s specific date and time that you choose.

Old Oligarch · 02-01-06, 11:12 AM

Yes, I too hope there is some way to fix this, but a little searching here and on Google has turned up nothing. Does anyone else have some wisdom to share on this issue? Or do I have to change calendar programs?

Hopefully there is a little registry hack that gives one snooze options of 12 hours, 2 days, etc., like in desktop Outlook.