[Remind-Fans] include txt files instead of .rem files in directory and open that file

[Dave Parker]

I tried to include a folder with text files, one of which has a remind
statement, and got this error

david at ubuntu1310:~$ remind -z '-kbash
/home/david/Dropbox/scripts/yad/msgAndOptns.sh %s &'
/home/david/Dropbox/PersonalWiki/data/ &
[1] 22657
david at ubuntu1310:~$ /home/david/Dropbox/PersonalWiki/data/: No files
matching *.rem
Error reading /home/david/Dropbox/PersonalWiki/data/: No files matching
*.rem


So it looks like in my case (wanting to include a folder of text files
instead of a specific text file) it doesn't work without the files being
rem files :(



On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Dave Parker <cedardocster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you all for the great ideas.
>
> Two follow up questions:
>
> 1) I'm not totally familiar with this type of mailing list (more used to
> google groups)  If I reply normally from my gmail as I'm doing here, does
> my reply go to everyone in the list (and is that okay?) or just to the
> people that replied to my original question.
>
> 2) Does everyone here run their computer 24:7?  I'm thinking of getting
> one of those plug computers to run an ongoing instance of remind and also
> btsync.  Is that a good idea or no? (I'm nervous of getting into the world
> of "servers", i.e. computers with no gui)
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Brian Carter <robotmachine at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
>
>> I use todo.txt in combination with Remind. When something is coming due in
>> Remind (for me I just use 'due tomorrow' as the determiner) a Cron job
>> adds
>> that as an (A) todo in my todo.txt file. Then I have another script that
>> pushes my todo list every day to my phone so I can see easily check if
>> anything is due in the next two days.
>>
>>
>> On 26 May 2014 09:21, Ruthard Baudach <ruthard.baudach at web.de> wrote:
>>
>> > >== Auszüge aus der Nachricht von  Dave Parker vom 2014-05-22 01:00:
>> > > I am starting to use a file based todo system (one directory holding
>> text
>> > > files which are the "todos") and I had the idea that maybe I could
>> just
>> > > include that directory and have some sort of rem statement within the
>> > file
>> > > that would run the file itself (i.e. just open the text file) when the
>> > > date/time came up.
>> > >
>> > > Is this possible?
>> >
>> > depends on what you mean...
>> >
>> > Idea 1)
>> >   remind does not know about extensions. If the file contains valid
>> >   reminder input, it may have every extension you like.
>> >   Thus:
>> >
>> >     include mytextfile.txt
>> >
>> >   works perfectly well, as long as mytextfile.txt contains reminder
>> >   commands
>> >
>> >
>> > Idea 2)
>> >   to open a file, use the RUN command:
>> >
>> >   2000-01-01 AT 01:01 RUN my-favorite-editor-or-pager
>> > /path/to/mytextfile.txt
>> >
>> > Idea 3)
>> >   remind is IMHO not suited to manage todos -- there is no easy method
>> >   to manage deadlines, priorities, contexts and projects.
>> >
>> >   Had a look on todo.sh by Gina Trapani (todotxt.com)
>> >
>> >   I would love to create a interface for remind and todo.sh, just didn't
>> >   have the opportunity.
>> >
>> > Yours,
>> >
>> > Ruthard
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