I'm going to use the Calendar Alarm here. But once you have it setup I'm going to show you how easy it is to then reuse that alarm easily. Setting this up the first time is going to have a lot of steps. So let me show you an easier way you can do it using the Calendar but also using Automator. But sometimes you may have the volume on your Mac set too low for that to work and it's kind of clunky to constantly be setting these events in the Calendar. You can even associate a sound with that event. In the Calendar you can set an event to happen at a certain time. But these either cost money, bug you for in-app purchases, or show advertisements in them.Īnother thing you can do is you can go into the Calendar. For instance, you can get a third party app to do this in the App Store. Now there are other ways to set alarms on your Mac. That's fine for getting a notification while you're working but if you're in another part of the room or taking a nap it's not going to wake you up. Of course you can set a reminder but a reminder is going to give you kind of a quiet notification with a little thing at the top right hand corner of your screen. If you have ever tried to set an alarm on your Mac you know it can be kind of frustrating. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Today let me show you how to create an alarm clock using Automator and the Calendar App on your Mac.

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