OK, I gave TBird's Lightning extension the proverbial college try for firing task reminders. The problems I have with it are:
- TBird uses ~80MB of memory idling, while TMR uses zero until Win Task Scheduler fires it;
- sometimes it just stops firing reminders at all until I restart TBird;
- some tasks show twice ("snoozed" occurrences of recurring tasks?); and
- If you edit a task, it remains "open" but is dismissed from the reminder window without a snooze.
- TBird uses ~80MB of memory idling, while TMR uses zero until Win Task Scheduler fires it;
- sometimes it just stops firing reminders at all until I restart TBird;
- some tasks show twice ("snoozed" occurrences of recurring tasks?); and
- If you edit a task, it remains "open" but is dismissed from the reminder window without a snooze.
So, Lightning's task minder isn't really a suitable aid for tightly managing complex, dynamic production logistics. It's fine for loose time management.
On a related note, once I satisfy myself that I can archive my entire message store and Lightning data store with MozBackup and restore it to a fresh TBird install seamlessly on another machine, I need to look into converting from POP3 to IMAP, keeping synced with an offline cache, and figuring out a unified archival/continuity strategy.