Steve Searle wrote: > Around 02:33pm on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 (UK time), Bill Davidsen scrawled: > >> 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. > > Another vote for remind - although I only use it to email me the next > day's reminders rather than as an interactive "pop-up" application. But > the configurability is brilliant, allowing for count-downs to events, > calculation of moon phases for my latitude and longitude, and any other > number of things. > > But then I'm a mutt devotee also. > > Steve > > I am another remind user. I like the fact that I can have one file with all the holidays and such, and then each user can have their own specific events, and link include the system folder. (INCLUDE /usr/share/remind/remind) I have a .reminders file in /etc/skel that just has the INCLUDE so that users do not have to figure out where it is. I have a monthly cron job that mails the HTML calendar to each user. Including quite a few that do not use the system, but have get it on another e-mail account. As you said, you can also get daily or weekly reminders. I have modified the scripts so they only produce the output for one user, so they can use it in their own cron job. Some people want the daily or weekly e-mails, and some do not. You also have the option of putting the system calendar up as a web page - great for an internal web server. Like Steve, I do not use the pop-up alarm function, so you will have to see if that meets your needs. There is also the a GUI that will display the calendar, as well as let you add events. It also lets you set the pop-up options, have it e-mail you the reminders if the pop-up program is killed. You can also have it show you the days events when you start it. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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