I need a better way of keeping track of time. Having all these alerts drives me crazy at times, no matter how I arrange them, and if there are too many, I have a tendency to tune them out, which is bad, because some of them are very important.
The following thing occurred to me the other day...
Why does it always have to be a sound?
At work, I would't mind just having a thing in the KDE task bar that gradually starts flashing quicker as you get closer to an event, for example.