On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 02:46:04PM +0100, 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 lattitude and longitude, and any other > number of things. > > But then I'm a mutt devotee also. > I am a mutt person too (OP), I've looked at Remind several times and it's never really sold itself to me but maybe I'll take another harder look at it. -- Chris Green -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
