Set snooze duration for Mountain Lion notifications

dicsondm,

In Preferences/Notifications, you will find 3 Calendar alert styles: None, Banners, and Alerts. Banners go away automatically. Alerts stay on screen until dismissed. So, I would guess that your notifcations are set to "Banners" and need to be set to "Alerts" if you want them to stick around until you have either closed them or set a "snooze" time.

Thanks Vic,

I still may be missing something (I learned years ago software only does what asked to do, and I'm not a Geek), but I've been trying my own non-geek tests of the snooze feature of Mavericks calendar.

I'll keep trying, but what I've seen today after several "experiments" is that a Calendar Alert (I don't have my alerts set to "Banners"), if let run the full snooze time (or even if not snoozed), will automatically "delete" after 5 minutes.

I'll keep trying.

I have yet to try Mavericks' Calendar. After being so disapointed in it in ML, mainly the Snooze feature lost from iCal, I moved to BusyCal. Surprisingly, some BusyCal notificatons do generate a Calendar type notification but it goes away. Is Calendar still not giving the option to set a new time for another reminder when the notification pops up? I see, from the messages, it is self deleting (or canceling) as it did in ML if not attended to (clumslily, IMHO). BusyCal isn't perfect but the reminders are easily reset; unfortunately it costs as much as ML cost. It seems that a small code change (and I'm no coder) would allow Calendar the ability to reset its reminders as it once did.

Tom

Snooze time may be set by the user in Mavericks:

Any specifics?

Click and hold on the Snooze button to bring up a drop down menu. Snooze times from minutes to hours to days to weeks.

Click and hold on the Snooze button to bring up a drop down menu. Snooze times from minutes to hours to days to weeks.

...UNLESS you weren't at your desk and the reminder has dismissed itself. Then you get NO snooze.

I love that BusyCal ALWAYS assumes I wanted to know about an event even if it takes me a week before I'm at my computer to see it. Better safe than sorry when it comes to calendar events. Hey, if it isn't important why is it on your calendar?!

There are different snooze options for "Alert" snoozes and "Event" snoozes, as I found out during my lengthy session with the Apple phone support.

Click on System Prefrences/Notifications/Calendar and select "Alerts" under "Calendar Alert Style" and the reminder will not dismiss itself but will wait for you to dismiss it.

I don't mean to sound dissagreable. But, I have spent considerable time talking with senior advisors at AppleCare since my original post, and this is what we have come up with:

1. There are two different types of calendar alerts - pre-event and event.

2. Snooze options for pre-event and event alerts are different (make sure you hold the snooze button down to see the options).

3. Pre-event alerts work fine, but when the event start time is reached the pre-event alert becomes an event alert, and the snooze options change.

4. If you do not either close, or snooze, an event alert it will self-close when the event duration (end time) is reached.

You can test it yourself. Set a calendar event start time a couple of minutes from your current local time with a short duration (maybe two minutes). Watch as the event alert displays, then wait the (two) minutes and watch it close.

AppleCare is elevating the item to engineering, and I have posted to Apple.com/feedback. I'm wating to see what they have to say.

What about Reminders alerts? Do they behave in a similar fashion, or do they continue to display until dismissed?

I came from Snow Leopard to Mavericks. I read through this thread and finally found this Click-and-hold-Snooze feature, which solves I big problem Lion and Moutain Lion users had to sustain for 2 years. Phew, that I switched so late, really saved me some headache.

But I also have to fight with the dismissing Alerts, Reminders, Events, especially when my Mac is sleeping during an Event , Alert or Snooze-Event. Thanks @dicksondm for your writing about the details of events and pre-events. Have to think a bit about this, if we maybe do not use the Calendar right. But in the end I am confident, that auto dismissing alerts is a big design BUG.

So@dicksondm I would be very pleased, to read here more from your escalation with the Apple-Feedback-Team. Thanks a lot.

If the auto-dismissal only applies to Calendar alerts, and not to Reminders alerts, then I guess there is a sort of logic to it i.e. "why would you want to be reminded about an event you have missed" might be Apple's argument (though personally I would, please, Apple). However, if Reminder alerts - which I use for payments due , insurance renewals, etc. - are also auto -dismissed then that is illogical as well as inconvenient, since they are often reminders of actions that are not tied to a particular hour or even day. I'm not clear, though, from the preceding discussion whether the auto-dismiss feature applies to Reminders alerts as well as Calendar alerts, to just the latter?

Sorry, that final sentence should have finished with "OR just the latter".

I did right now the following test with Reminders on OSX 10.9.0:

I set a Reminder "Test" to occur in 1 min. Then I waited 1 minute. The (sticky) banner appeared. I click-hold the snooze button and selected in 1 min. The banner disappeared. Now I closed my MacBooks lid to have it sleep. I waited 2 minutes to assure the snooze time of 1 minute is over. Then I opened the lid. I could not see any banner at the log in screen. After log in, no banner from the Snooze-Test either. Waited additional 20 minutes. But the Snooze-Event did not create any banner anymore. Though, when looking into the Notification Center list (2 finger slide from right side) I could see the TEST event in the list of Reminders as "22 minutes in the past" (my translation, I use a non-english localization).

A similar test with a Calendar Event could be one with a Calender Event that has a duration of 1 minute. Here one has to look at several cases, alert pre event and alert during event and snooze pre event, snooze during event and snooze after event. But the results are similar. If the event (or event of snooze) passed during sleep of the Mac and you open the lid, you get no banner and there is no item in Notification Center in opposite to Reminders where is at least the item in the list.