[Remind-Fans] newbie question

[Emily Price]

The new system process created by timed reminders will, when run from
the shell, print the reminder to stdout at the time of the reminder
(or any time before that, as specified by the + command).

One good way to make use of the timed reminders in OS X is to reroute
them to Growl if you have it installed. All that's involved is
creating a perl script which takes all its command-line arguments and
sends them to Growl and then using the -k command to send timed
reminders to that perl script (make sure its in your path)

As for what you were already trying to do with the timed reminders,
have you tried various combinations of + - and * parameters in your
time... I don't know off the top of my head how you'd get what you're
looking for, but I've found the best way to figure it out is create a
dummy file with reminders for a few minutes from now and experiement
with different combinations. Keep in mind while doing this, though,
that you should run remind with the -q option so that you don't spawn
a million child processes every time you run it.

Good luck!

- Emily


On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:12:16 +0100, A. Klostermaier
<remind-fan at klostermaier.de> wrote:
> Bezugnehmend auf Ihr E-Mail/Referring to your e-mail
> vom/from 10.03.2005 um/at 5:48 Uhr:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I'm new to Remind, just trying it out for the first time today.  I
> >think that it has a lot of promise for me, but I'm confused about the
> >timed reminders.  First off, I'm using Remind on Mac OS X and piping
> >the output to my desktop using the utility GeekTool.
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> nice to meet somebody who uses remind on OS X! So do I and I too use GeekTool to have my calendar available on the desktop. Using expose for instant and all-the-time access to my schedule without having to launch an application is the strongest motiv for me to use remind. I have three calendars arranged on the desktop:
> 
> 1. a big graphical display of the weeks ahead, covering most of the desktop using customized columns widths:
>     /usr/local/bin/rem -m -v -c+8 -b1 -w145 -q
> 
> 2. a small textual list with a lookout of coming events and how many days until they are due:
>     /usr/local/bin/rem -m -b1 -q -ga
> 
> 3. a week-overview of my kids school hours, which I maintain in their own file:
>     /usr/local/bin/remind -m -v -c+1 -b1 -w94 -q ~/.rem_stundenplan
> 
> >Ok, so if I write a reminder such as:
> >
> >REM March 9 2005 AT 20:00 MSG timed reminder test
> >
> >and run remind prior to 20:00, the message "timed reminder test" shows
> >up prior to when it's supposed to appear.  It appears that the timing
> >function isn't being obeyed, but I can't figure out what I'm doing
> >wrong.
> 
> Sorry that I cannot really help on this. I use the same timed reminders as you do, but I do want to see them ahead! If I check my current day in the calendar I want to see, that I have an appointment later the day at 20:00 so I never struggled with this issue. What I recognized is, that at the given time a new system process is activated for the timed reminder, but I have no idea what it is doing. So I got rid of it using the -q option.
> 
> BTW: to display appointments with an end time in my calender I write it like this:
> 
>     REM 9 Mar 2005 AT 20:00 MSG -21:00 myAppointment
> 
> The end time becomes part of the Message and is in no way functional, but looks perfect in the calendar.
> 
> > In what may be a related problem, if I write a reminder such
> >as:
> >
> >REM March 5 2005 UNTIL March 13 2005 MSG test
> >
> >no output is there when I run remind (assuming that I'm running this
> >on March 9)
> 
> The reminder is missing the repeat-parameter and should read like this:
> 
>     REM March 5 2005 *1 UNTIL March 13 2005 MSG test
> 
> Andreas
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