How to make Outlook Calendar reminders stay on top in Windows

"...I want to know how to make my Outlook reminders pop up and show themselves prominently. They keep opening discreetly, as just another window in the Outlook stack on the taskbar. As a result, I keep overlooking them because they pop up behind everything else.

"How do I make them less easy to overlook?

"(Clearly, one usually doesn't want obnoxious apps that push themselves to the forefront. But there are a few places where such behavior is desirable, and Outlook calendar reminders are one of them.)"

-- thursdaysgeek March 1, 2011. See question 251963 .

This is a duplicate question.

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For Office 365 subscribers, this feature is available if you are on Version 1804 (Build 9226.2114) or higher.

You can set up Outlook to display your reminder window on top of other programs you're working in.

1. Select File > Options > Advanced.

2. In the Reminders section, check the box marked Show reminders on top of other windows.

3. Click OK.

Reference: Set or remove reminders

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I'm using AutoHotKey to do this. Because I have other events that I am monitoring I added this to my AHK script.

Adding this into my initialization

;Monitor Outlook Reminder window, restore and bring to the Top every ~4 minutes.
OutlookRemndrs_Init:
SetTimer, OutlookRemndrs_OnTop, 380000

And Adding this afterward

OutlookRemndrs_OnTop: SetTitleMatchMode 2 WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, on, Reminder WinRestore, Reminder return

This is to add my two cents to question 251963 . Specific thanks to Eric L (user 10788)

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Win 10, Outlook 2019. All suggestions didn't work. Workaround: Download + start Always on top (). Focus on outlook. Type CTRL+SPACE. This will keep Outlook topmost. Minimize it. The reminder window will pop up on top. I hope, M$ adds an option to choose this (again).

NoReminders

I see the code above for AHK to monitor the Outlook reminder window every 4 minutes and then pin it always on top. This works great but ... too great ... it pins reminders window on top even if there are no reminders!!!!

How do I suppress this when there are no reminders?

;Monitor Outlook Reminder window, restore and pin always on Top every ~4 minutes.
OutlookRemndrs_Init:
SetTimer, OutlookRemndrs_OnTop, 380000
OutlookRemndrs_OnTop: SetTitleMatchMode 2 WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, on, Reminder WinRestore, Reminder return

[EDIT] Actually, I just thought of this and it seems to be working:

;Monitor Outlook Reminder, restore and pin always on Top every ~4 min.
OutlookRemndrs_Init:
SetTimer, OutlookRemndrs_OnTop, 380000
OutlookRemndrs_OnTop: SetTitleMatchMode 2 WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, on, 1 Reminder(s) WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, on, 2 Reminder(s) WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, on, 3 Reminder(s) WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, on, 4 Reminder(s) WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, on, 5 Reminder(s) WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, on, 6 Reminder(s) WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, on, 7 Reminder(s) WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, on, 8 Reminder(s) WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, on, 9 Reminder(s) WinRestore, 1 Reminder(s) WinRestore, 2 Reminder(s) WinRestore, 3 Reminder(s) WinRestore, 4 Reminder(s) WinRestore, 5 Reminder(s) WinRestore, 6 Reminder(s) WinRestore, 7 Reminder(s) WinRestore, 8 Reminder(s) WinRestore, 9 Reminder(s) return

I wrote a small program which just brings your outlook reminders to top, its very lightweight and it has on option to automatically start on login

it is free and open source, if it has any issues or you have any suggestions please feel free to reach out to me.

The program is available at

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