Keeping Appointments
Most of us have meetings and appointments that we need to keep; however, not many of us can remember all of these with 100% accuracy! Luckily, Evolution gives you a way to track these, just like the Calendar in Microsoft Outloook.
You can create an appointment in Evolution by clicking on the "Calendar" icon (
) in the main window. The calendar pane will display:
Right click over the time of your appointment and choose the type of event you want to set up (-in this case, we just want a regular appointment):
A dialogue box will open up, allowing you to specify various things about your appointment (-similar to the Task dialogue). Once you have entered the information, you can optionally click on the stopwatch icon to set a reminder to pop up prior to the event:
A new dialogue box will open: click the down arrow of the "Alarm" drop down box and choose "Customise":
Click the "Add" button to create a new custom alarm:
Another dialogue box will open: enter the time that you want the alarm to first pop up - along with any repeat alarms you desire:
You can also choose to enter a custom message to be displayed when the alarm is displayed, by checking the "Custom Message" box:
Once everything is set up as you wish, click on the "Save" icon:
You should now see the appointment displayed in the main Calendar window:
When the alarm time entered is reached, you should see a reminder pop up on your desktop:
If you click on the alerts icon in the taskbar, you can edit or dismiss the reminder:
You can change the way tasks are displayed, alerted and the default settings via:
Edit → Preferences
Once open, click on the "Calendar and Tasks" icon to display the tabs available for Alarms and Calendar setup: