[Remind-Fans] Beginner questions

[Tim Chase]

On 2019-06-01 17:53, pvpizza at posteo.net wrote:
> 1. Is it possible to print empty days in a list along with
> reminders? for example
> 
> 2019-01-01 | New Years party
> 2019-01-02 |
> 2019-01-03 | First day back at work
> 2019-01-04 |
> 2019-01-05 | Product review meeting
> 2019-01-06 | Client meeting
> 2019-01-07 |
> 
> The formatting isn't important, I would just like to see all the
> days of the month/year as a list with appointments for the days
> that have them

The following seems to work for me:

  BANNER %
  FSET msgprefix(x)=$T + " | "

  REM Jan 1, 2019 MSG %"New Years party%"%
  REM Jan 3, 2019 MSG %"First day back at work%"%
  REM Jan 3, 2019 MSG %"Drink lots of coffee%"%
  REM Jan 5, 2019 MSG %"Product review meeting%"%
  REM Jan 6, 2019 MSG %"Client meeting%"%

  SATISFY [! $NumTrig] MSG %"%"%


The BANNER line removes the date banner.

The "FSET msgprefix" tacks on  the leading date and pipe.

The very last thing in your file(s) should be the SATISFY line which
makes a fake empty-string MSG if no other messages have been
triggered/output for this date.

And the rest are just your sample events plus one to confirm it gave
sensible output if more than one event happened on the same date.  You
can then get the output with

  $ remind 2019-01-01 '*7'

to show 7 days of reminders beginning on 2019-01-01.

> 2. When using the AT clause, to set a time for a reminder, is there 
> anyway to check for a 'double booking' i.e two events on the same
> day at the same time?

I'll have to leave that for others on the list.

-tim