How to enable reminders?

DEVONthink Automation
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I’m starting to get into automating a few things in DTPO. I’ve written a couple of scripts and added them to the scripts menu and they work fine.

I’m now experimenting with reminders and would like to have a script get triggered by a reminder.

However, reminders do not seem to be working at all for me. I tried the following and received NOTHING, no notification at all:

  • Make a new markdown file. Give it a name and some text.
  • Open up the Reminders inspector and set a one time reminder for 5 minutes from now and select “Display Alert” from the “Alarm” drop down menu.
  • Wait 5 minutes.

Is there some setting I need to enable to get this working? I’ve tried other items from the “Alarm” menu and none of them seem to work. What am I missing here? I’ve searched the forum here and didn’t see an answer to this problem.

(Background details: MacOS “Big Sur” 11.2.3, DTPO 3.6.3)

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If you use the Once internal, if defaults to tomorrow at the same time, so I’d guess you changed the minutes but not the date.

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Yeah, I forgot the first time I tried it. But I tried it again just now and made sure the time and DATE were set to today (see attached screen shot) and I still get nothing.

The file I made is in a group in a new database I recently created.

Screen Shot 2021-03-12 at 9.18.17 AM

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I found and fixed the problem. It was a self-inflicted wound. I had un-checked “Enable reminder alarms” in the “General” tab in preferences. Sigh. :man_facepalming:t2:

Thank you for taking the time to answer me. I really appreciate the level of support you and your colleagues provide. It keeps me as a customer and is one of many reasons I recommend your products to my colleagues.

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No problem and you’re very welcome :slight_smile: