Windows – How to add a custom snooze period to Windows Calendar notifications

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In Windows 10, the Calendar app is integrated and tries to take over calendar features. It produces a notification 15 minutes before an event, like this:

The 15 minute reminder is helpful, to go through the mental checklist of completing any last-minute preparations. Most of the time, that checklist happens quickly as everything's already complete, and I'd like the next reminder 10 minutes later, i.e. 5 minutes before the meeting, which is the get-up-and-go reminder. However, when I click in the area which says "5 minutes," as if to edit, I get a select-list with the following limited options:

How can I add a "10 minutes" option to this list?

Many of the events on my calendar are created by other people, so changing the default reminder time for calendar events I create will not be a good solution. I would like to add a custom time to the Snooze option in Windows 10, or be able to edit the value of an existing option.

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Doesn't appear to be a way. The choices are mostly worthless for me.. Depending on circumstances, I may want to snooze until 10 mins before to days before a target date/time.

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Sub SnoozedReminders()

' http://www.jpsoftwaretech.com/check-your-outlook-reminders-in-vba/

Dim MyReminder As Outlook.Reminder
Dim MyReminders As Outlook.Reminders
Dim Report As String
Dim i As Long

Set MyReminders = Outlook.Reminders

i = 0

For Each MyReminder In MyReminders

    If HasReminderFired(MyReminder) = True Then
        i = i + 1
        Report = Report & i & ": " & MyReminder.Caption & vbCr & _
            "     Snoozed to " & MyReminder.NextReminderDate & vbCr & vbCr
    End If

Next MyReminder

CreateReportAsEmail "Snoozed Items", Report

End Sub


Function HasReminderFired(rmndr As Outlook.Reminder) As Boolean
    HasReminderFired = (rmndr.OriginalReminderDate <> rmndr.NextReminderDate)
End Function


' VBA SubRoutine which displays a report inside an email
' Programming by Greg Thatcher, http://www.GregThatcher.com

Public Sub CreateReportAsEmail(Title As String, Report As String)

    On Error GoTo On_Error

    Dim Session As Outlook.Namespace
    Dim mail As MailItem
    Dim MyAddress As AddressEntry
    Dim Inbox As Outlook.folder 

    Set Session = Application.Session
    Set Inbox = Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
    Set mail = Inbox.items.Add("IPM.Mail")

    mail.Subject = Title
    mail.Body = Report

    mail.Save
    mail.Display

Exiting:
    Set Session = Nothing
    Set Inbox = Nothing
    Set mail = Nothing
    Exit Sub

On_Error:
    MsgBox "error=" & Err.Number & " " & Err.Description
    Resume Exiting

End Sub

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