Chris G wrote:
Having decided that there's no application out there that can manage
both my calendar/time management *and* my reminder/alarm requirements
I've decided to look for a dedicated alarm program. My requirements
are:-
Must run in the background or be driven by cron so that alarms
will appear regardless of what I'm doing (I will be running an X
desktop but that's the only guaranteed thing, actually not quite, Firefox
is always running too).
When an event is due I want to be able to pop up daily reminders
from a specified number of days before the event and to be able to
stop them when I have 'done' what is required. I'd like the
pop-up (flag, whatever) to be permanent until I acknowledge it,
something like an icon in the Gnome Panel would be OK.
Events need to be specified by date, time of day is unlikely to be
significant. For most things a yearly repeat would be fine (e.g.
a 'birthday' type reminder), I also have several which are
quaterly but I'm prepared to deal with them by setting up four
annual reminders if necessary.
Kalarm seems to fulfil most of my criteria - any other ideas? Is
there something more 'Gnome friendly' or generic maybe?
A PIM or groupware application which can do this might be of interest
but I will *not* be running it all the time so note the first
criterion above.
I use "remind" because it also can do useful things like generate paper
calendars, handle things like election day (tuesday after the first Monday in
November), and generate ASCII, HTML, or Postscript output. It can not only
remind you of birthdays, but tell you how old the person is, and quarterly
things are a one-line description.
I've been using it for years, and I have a meeting input file, holidays, family
birthdays, league competition days, all in separate files so I can merge and
generate custom calendars.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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