On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Together with remind, for pop-ups, I use xmessage. Paul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
