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just wondering how your guys and girls set up reminders on your linux machine?
do you set a cron job to remind you of say a film that on TV or something you need to do at a certain time.
Do you use a specific program?
I just installed alarm clock for simple reminders you get options for sound or onscreen messge or both. I just wanted something that I couldn't miss noticing.
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just wondering how your guys and girls set up reminders on your linux machine?
do you set a cron job to remind you of say a film that on TV or something you need to do at a certain time.
Do you use a specific program?
I use conky and "remind" (Desktop #1)
04 Sep 13 | 14:45:46 ~
$ sho remind
Package: remind
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 03.01.13-1
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Maintainer: Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez <ana@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 416 k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Suggests: tkremind, wyrd
Description: sophisticated calendar and alarm program
Remind allows you to remind yourself of upcoming events and appointments. Each reminder or alarm can consist of a
message sent to standard output, or a program to be executed.
It also features: sophisticated date calculation, moon phases, sunrise/sunset, Hebrew calendar, alarms, PostScript
output, tcl/tk front-end and proper handling of holidays.
Reminders can be created by the remind scripting language or by using the graphical frontend package "tkremind".
Homepage: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind/
04 Sep 13 | 14:45:58 ~
$
See: Today and This Month
for S11 and S12 I use Kaivalagi's conkyDayDiff - obviously S11 needs updating.
${font monofur:size=20}${alignc}${color6}Today${color}${font}
${pre_exec remind -q -r ~/.reminders | fold -sw70 | sed -e "/.*(today):/d" -e '/^$/d'}
${hr}
${font monofur:size=20}${alignc}${color6}This Month${color}${font}
${pre_exec rem -s | cut -c9-10,19-}
${hr 1}
${alignc}S12
Santa${alignr 5}${color8}Days: ${color}${execi 86400 conkyDaysDiff 20130829}${color}
${alignc}${color5}29·08·2013 ${color8}@ ${color5}12:45${color}
${hr}
${alignc}S11
Claus${alignr 5}${color8}Days: ${color}${execi 86400 conkyDaysDiff 20131225}${color}
${alignc}${color5}25·12·2013 ${color8}@ ${color5}00:01${color}
${hr 1}
and conky and a text file to show TV shows (Desktop #2):
TEXT
${font monofur:size=20}${alignc}${color6}Easter${color}${font}
${alignc}${pre_exec ncal -e}
${color7}${hr 1}${color}
${execpi 3600 ncal -bh | /media/5/Conky/scripts/ncal2.awk}
${color7}${hr 1}${color}
${font monofur:size=20}${alignc}${color6}Today${color}${font}
${pre_exec remind -q -r ~/.reminders | fold -sw70 | sed -e "/.*(today):/d" -e '/^$/d'}
${color7}${hr 1}${color}
${font monofur:size=20}${alignc}${color6}This Month${color}${font}
${pre_exec rem -s | cut -c9-10,19-}
${color7}${hr 1}${color}
${tail /media/5/Conky/Days/all.txt 30}
Might switch that to use conkyText to get better formatting and colour in there.
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I use ReminderFox, a FF add-on. The drawback is you have to click its icon to view the reminder list, i.e., a reminder screen
doesn't pop on your screen at a specific time.
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^Yes ReminderFox was very good last I used it.
Another good FireFox add-on for this purpose is Simple Timer.
Or there's always Google calendar...
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I use rememberthemilk.com in combination with conky. It doesn't pop up or anything at a given time but it is always on display on my wallpaper.
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sudo apt-get install remind
man remind
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^ must remind myself to check that out...
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I use...Post-Its? 8o Tried using virtual sticky-note programs, but I keep falling back to old-school pen and paper.
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Sometimes I use Workrave to remind me to get up and move, but it's off right now since there's jobs I need to actually monitor at times.
Edit- @pvsage, I'm also a fan of post-it notes.
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I use...Post-Its? 8o Tried using virtual sticky-note programs, but I keep falling back to old-school pen and paper.
Same here. Also, reminders on my old Nokia phone works well.
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Cron is for scheduling, 'at' is for reminders.
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Short term stuff i write on my hand.
Long term stuff i use google calendar, it sends email reminders, plus it is cross platform, which is good as I am not at the machine all day.
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Short term stuff i write on my hand.
Long term stuff i use google calendar, it sends email reminders, plus it is cross platform, which is good as I am not at the machine all day.
LOL, like your keep it simple approach
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blackberry memopad ftw (I always have my cell phone on me:we sleep together, mess with it while I do number 2, its next to me when I take my shower, etc.)
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I use...Post-Its? 8o Tried using virtual sticky-note programs, but I keep falling back to old-school pen and paper.
And it adds 0bytes to the system. No bloat.
Of course gutterslobs use of remind in a terminal is exactly what it was intended for. Two thumbs up!
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Short term stuff i write on my hand..
it's funny because it works!
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Long term stuff i use google calendar, it sends email reminders, plus it is cross platform, which is good as I am not at the machine all day.
Same here. I also setup reminders in Google Keep on my smartphone just in case, I'm away from a computer or don't check my email.
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^ I'm sure most people (myself included) use sticky-notes and/or smartphones more often for most stuff. I agree that these are far more practical, but the OP was asking for solutions on a "linux machine". That's why most posts suggested a desktop app of some sort.
^ must remind myself to check that out...
Sector11 actually suggested remind via his conky script before I did. The only reason I posted the package installation and man page code was because the OP has a history of not reading documentation.
You can also check out wyrd, a front-end for remind that simplifies the process to some degree. Should be in your repositories/ports-tree, regardless of distro.
In the past, I had remind configured to e-mail me reminders for important events/tasks, which I usually checked on the same tty/session via mutt, or via e-mail notifications once I got a smartphone later on. I suppose you could also pipe remind output to conky with execpi and sed. Sector11's conky configs should get you sorted in that regard.
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Thank you, gutterslob. remind+wyrd are really worth checking out (though I'm pretty sure I'll be back to paper pretty soon...)
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pvsage wrote:I use...Post-Its? 8o Tried using virtual sticky-note programs, but I keep falling back to old-school pen and paper.
And it adds 0bytes to the system. No bloat.
Yes, but it has a larger carbon footprint than using a software-based reminder on hardware that is already running.
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There is one thing I find sad about my reminders/ToDo List
IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO GET THROUGH IT!
like you remove one thing and add two
Anyone else in my situation lol?
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I use Rainlendar.
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Gutterslob wrote
The only reason I posted the package installation and man page code was because the OP has a history of not reading documentation.
yeah, screw you with your superior remarks. I never comment on your threads and it would be great if you never did on mine.
It was just a simple question as I was curious what others were using. I am sticking with Alarm clock as it's simple and pretty good.
thanks all for letting me know how you do things - some were amusing
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I use org-mode for emacs.
It is not sending me reminders so mentioning it here is slightly off-topic but check it out.
I use it both at work and at home. I do not use it to its full potential.
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Fountain pen and paper!
EDIT: I didn't notice that the OP meant on your Linux machine...
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