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Add 'day before' default alarm to iCal events Apps
If you add alarms and reminders to your iCal events and are tired of putting in one day ("day before") or two days as the time period, iCal offers a feature to resolve this with a little math. Go into iCal's preference pane and look towards the bottom. Check the box that says "Add a default alarm to all new events and invitations." In the box below that, enter the minutes (15 by default).

To get an alarm the day before -- or two or three, etc. days before -- is to simply multiple 60*24 for a day, 60*48 for two days and so on. iCal will recognize that this is a day and by default make the reminder set to the day before.
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Add 'day before' default alarm to iCal events
Authored by: Anonymous on Oct 06, '08 11:57:59AM

I'll assume you can't type "60*24" into the dialog.

(Nice to learn it was just arithmetic, and not mathematics, as the post claims.)



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Add 'day before' default alarm to iCal events
Authored by: cwanja on Oct 06, '08 01:06:55PM

I have tried just the expression way of it, but I know if you do the math end of it and type in the total, that will work just fine.

This was my submission, I just forgot to login during the post.

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