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calendar alerts don't have snooze

I just upgraded to Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro-13" (mid-2010) and although the notification center shows the alerts I set in Calendars (formerly iCal) once the alert fires - I cannot hit a SNOOZE time to have the alert reappear in 15 minutes or 2 hours or 1 day-- like I could the past 10 years with iCal.

Isn't there a way to be able to SNOOZE the alerts?

Thanks for any comments.

There really should be a way to postpone the alert or snooze the alert.

Thanks very much.

Best regards,

Steve

27 July 2012

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion, Also a Mac SE running 6.0.4 - not upgrading that!

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 3:01 AM

75 replies

RustonJ

Level 1

31 points

Aug 1, 2012 3:00 PM in response to Stephen Schulte1

Agreed. This is a major oversight. The worst part is when I'm workingon my Mac I have to constantly snooze an alert until I can deal with it then when I get on my iPad the alert pops up about 50 times to correspond with each snooze. Arggghhhhh!!!

Aug 2, 2012 4:28 AM in response to RustonJ

Try the BusyCal application-- you get a 30 day free trial and I was so pleased that I purchased it after 5 days-- they sent me about 6 replies to my many questions and are improving the program regularly.

Best regards,

Steve Schulte

Thursday 2 August 2012

Iarotu

Level 1

0 points

Sep 14, 2012 1:31 AM in response to Stephen Schulte1

Mozilla Thunderbird with Mozilla Lightning Calendar has Snooze and is free.

Sep 17, 2012 12:13 AM in response to Iarotu

Thanks, but I really like having iCal (Calendars) - and now BusyCal to sync with my iPod, iPad and soon (I hope!) an iPhone.

Appreciate the info!

Steve

Monday 17 September 2012

Oct 25, 2012 6:17 PM in response to Richard Baskett

Richard,

I purchased BusyCal and have been using it for several months now. It has the snoozes. But now the BusyCal people have upgraded version 1.6.4 to version 2.0. This no longer has the snoozes. It uses notification Center.

I wrote to them about this and they said they will continue to support version 1.6.4 but you know how that is. The ability to snooze an alarm for many days is critical in my daily work. I asked BusyCal people to consider giving both options in a further update of version 2.0 but I'm not getting great vibrations there.

If you have discovered an alternative to BusyCal which also syncs to Calendars in both the iOS and Mac X systems I would appreciate it.

Thanks and best regards,

Steve

26 October 2012

Oct 25, 2012 8:01 PM in response to Stephen Schulte1

Yeah I found out the same thing.. and at this point they are sticking with MAS also which I am not a fan of. I personally think they just shot themselves in the foot going with MAS only _and_ removing the snooze for however long you want functionality. 😟

Ill let you know if I find anything else.. at this point Im just hoping to find something that works with Calendar to make notices better 😟

Nov 1, 2012 2:45 PM in response to Richard Baskett

BusyCal 1.6🙂 was fantastic. There are some nice new features to BusyCal 2, but the removal of the ability to snooze an event for differing lengths of time makes the programme almost non-functional. Why on earth did they do this. It has been a major drawback in Apple Calendar. BusyCal is going backwards, not forwards.

Please let us know if you find any alternative. In the meantime, I am going to have to go back to BusyCal 1.6😟

Nov 12, 2012 3:31 PM in response to Stephen Schulte1

I got tired of waiting for the Snooze reminder feature. Just bought a new Lumia920 Windows phone and Wala! I can snooze reminders! Phone is AWESOME too.

Sorry Apple, All of those suggestions I've submitted were left ignored.

Nov 17, 2012 2:58 AM in response to grahamrsims

I just sent this eMail to BusyCal to see if any progress on a version 2.x with Alarms and the ability to snooze alarms: Hopefully they can do this-- they certainly have replied to my several eMails indicating they know how upset their customers are----

Just checking to see if there is any progress being made on having BusyCal 2.x with Alarms similar to BusyCal 1.6.4? Also note that what would be nice is for the alarm to be able to NOT ONLY "snooze" for 1 minute to xxx days (which is great) but also to have a choice like: "XX Minutes/Hours/Days BEFORE the event is scheduled". That is really handy, for example: I set an alarm to go off 4 days before a speech I am giving to make certain that I have truly written the speech. OK but now I don't want to calculate the number of hours before I get another alarm, I want to be able to check: "Snooze until 3 hours before the event" --- That, along with snoozing for XX minutes/hours/days (keep that feature!) would truly make this great-- and indeed what is necessary for a calendar program!

Dec 2, 2012 3:59 PM in response to Stephen Schulte1

Great news! Busy Cal listen and has added back in snooze alarms in addition to working with the notification Center. It's now an option which you want to work with. I actually like it better now then with version 1, this new snooze selection is a lot better to use. Easier-to-use and prettier as well. Better go grab Busy Cal 2 before the price goes up at the end of the year.

Jan 14, 2013 5:07 AM in response to Stephen Schulte1

Everyone should know that BusyCal 2.0.2 now has both notification options --- Notification Center (with only a standard 15 min snooze) AND a return to the previous snooze of alerts/alarms including a "minutes before the event" snooze as well!

I'm calling this solved, but really the entire Mac OS that Mac has must, imho, be modified to enable standard programs to have full snooze features. My life planning (and being on-time for events) is now hinged 100% on th company Busy Calc - and the program Busy Cal. Great company, but this is not the most secure future-- AND my notifications, when I am at my iPad-- cannot be snoozed -- best is to recreate or reschedule the alert--- NOT A GREAT SOLUTION --

I'll write to Apple but they seem so in love with their iOS - Mac OS Notification center that they likely will find it very difficult to bring back multiple snooze choices. Very sad that…

Best regards,

Steve Schulte

Monday 14 January 2013

raydot

Level 1

8 points

Feb 27, 2013 4:55 PM in response to Stephen Schulte1

As a long time (I'm talking since Apple ][) Apple customer I'm really pretty disappointed in the way things have been going for the past decade or so. OS X was this amazing breakthrough but it seems since Apple cast its lot with the iPhone the Apple customer has mattered less and less and less. I first noticed this with customer service which went from treating every Apple owner like an old friend to treating us like cattle to be cleared for slaughter. I've noticed this in pricing models with the disappearance of what were once generous education and referral discounts (I can't begin to count how many Apple computers I've "sold" either directly or indirectly as a developer and educator) and don't get me started on iPhone "data plans." And now i notice it in the OS, with long-time, well used, relied upon features disappearing because Apple knows better (and that battle for controlled snooze times has been going on for more than a decade). Hmmm...this all reminds me of another company I used to do a lot of business with...Micro...something. I can't quite seem to remember the name.

C'mon Apple. Steve is gone It's time to get back to what you once stood for. I stood by you during the clone wars, though OS 9, and even crappy snooze. But at some point the customers will have had enough.

Mar 9, 2013 5:00 PM in response to raydot

I have been MacOnly since 1989 -- but I do agree that certain basic needs like multiple, variable snooze alarm-alerts (thank goodness for BusyCalc) are essential. Every single day I have BusyCal alarms going off that I snooze from 2 minutes to 2 hours to 2 days to 2 weeks (OK 14 days…)-- and sometimes to exactly 7 minutes because I have a SKYPEin call coming in 10 minutes---- try to do that with the (horrible) notification center and calendars!!!

Best regards,

Steve Schulte

Sunday 10 March 2013

ElNono

Level 1

15 points

Mar 22, 2013 8:04 AM in response to Stephen Schulte1

SnoozeMaster is now avaiable from the Mac App Store, for MacOS X 10.8 and up.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snoozemaster/id614955483?mt=12

It addresses this exact issue. You'll be able to configure different pre-set snooze times, enter custom snooze times when an alarm triggers, etc. It's what snoozing should've been from the get go.

More information:

http://on-core.com/snoozemaster/

Mar 22, 2013 8:08 AM in response to ElNono

Well, I just downloaded it. I hope that does the trick. If so, it'll be the best Mac application in years!

-Brian

calendar alerts don't have snooze