Adding Default Alarms To iCal Events 3
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Good Evening,
If you use iCal to set up reminders and events it is often useful to add an alarm. This way you know an event is coming up and you wont forget it. That’s the theory anyway. This post is about automatically setting up an iCal alarm for your events. This way you don’t have to manually add an alarm. Its rather simple to implement and can save you a couple of seconds when adding a new event.
To add a default alarm, go to iCal > Preferences >General from the menu bar. This will load the preferences for iCal. Within the options have a look, about half way down, for an option that says “Add a default alarm”. This is the option we are looking for. Check the box and add a time in the text box. The alarms are set in minutes, so if you want an alarm set for the day before enter 1440 minutes.
Now every time you add a new event within iCal it will automatically add an alarm to that event.
Nifty. Saves me having to add one.
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3 Responses to “Adding Default Alarms To iCal Events”
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Will this also add the alarm to events, birthdays and Holidays already in ical ? or must I select & apply the alarm manually to all existing calender events ?
Comment By MIchael on August 23rd, at 7:13 am
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It should do it for all events.
Comment By admin on August 23rd, at 8:05 am
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Is there a way to change the default alarm from a sound to an email? I would love to have as a default an email sent 1 hour before. I’m constantly changing the set default…
Comment By Chris on July 19th, at 11:19 pm