On my desktop I have set a lot of alarms that go off silently, i.e. I
get an alert popup, but there is no sound being played. In Outlook
2002/XP one can achieve this by setting a reminder but unchecking the
"play this sound" checkbox. I am using such alarms a lot to remind
myself of birthdays (the corresponding agenda entries are created
automatically by Outlook), anniversaries and other events that should
not go forgotten.
When I sync such agenda entries to my PDA, however, these alerts will
invariably go off with a sound which is especially nasty when they go
off at midnight (at which time we usually are already asleep)and I thus
fear that my wife will sooner or later smash my PDA against the next
wall, if these alerts keep going off during the night. :-(
Is there a possibility in to define "silent" alerts on a WM6 device? By
"silent" I mean alerts that produce a popup and/or a reminder but
without sound? Ideally this options should be synched with the calendar
item, so that one wouldn't have to think about it again after
synchronization!
Or can one define a general "silence period" during which there will be
no alerts (or rather: alerts will go off either before or after that
period)? Is there maybe a 3rd party tool, that provides such
functionality?
Michael