If you like to hit the snooze on calendar event reminders in Lotus Notes, clear your eyes. Microsoft Outlook has 99% percent of the functionality, but there are some slight differences. In one case in particular, Microsoft Outlook falls short.
In Lotus Notes, you must enter the exact number of minutes you would like to snooze (Figure 1).
Figure 1
In Microsoft Outlook, you select a value from a drop-down menu (Figure 2).
Figure 2
The first difference is a manually entered integer value in Lotus Notes versus a preset list of default values in Microsoft Outlook. [Note: When you create a new calendar entry in Microsoft Exchange, you can specify a custom value.] Unfortunately, if you enter a value less than 5 Minutes in the Microsoft Outlook reminder window, it will not work. After more testing, I’ve discovered this is wrong. I believe I was manually modifying the “5 minutes before start” entry. If you actually enter “3 minutes” you will get another reminder in 3 minutes.
So if you like to snooze, for 1-4 minutes, you are out of luck!
On a positive note (no pun intended), I prefer some of the values in the Microsoft Outlook drop-down list. Although I have been known to snooze for 10 minutes, then 5, then 3, then 1, I have also been know to try to calculate the number of hours in 999 minutes.
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