[Remind-Fans] Mobile integration

[Dianne Skoll]

On 2020-02-20 20:54, Juan Meleiro via Remind-fans wrote:

> I've known remind for a long time now, but haven't been able to
> really integrate it into my routine. The problem is thay I rely too
> heavily on my smartphone, and haven't found a way to integrate them
> both.

I have scripts to do this integration, but I only use one-way integration:
I want events I enter into my phone to show up in Remind.  I never go the
other way (add an event in Remind and expect it to show up on my phone.)

I use Google Calendar, and Google lets you create a magic URL for pulling
down your calendar in iCal format.  I use a script something like
this:

  TMPREM=/home/dfs/Archive/google-cal/060-google.inc.tmp
  TMPFILE=/home/dfs/Archive/google-cal/google.ics

URL=https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/your_email%40gmail.com/private-google_magic_number_goes_here/basic.ics

  wget --quiet -O $TMPFILE $URL
  if test "$?" != 0; then
     echo "wget failed!"
     exit 1
  fi

  ical2rem-cli --lead-time 5 < $TMPFILE | fgrep -v NOREM | sed -e 's/
at.*%"/%"/' > $TMPREM

I do a few more manipulations on $TMPREM and then move it to
/home/dfs/.reminders/060-google.inc

I did not write ical2rem-cli; it's a Ruby script I obtained from
here: https://github.com/courts/ical2rem.rb

I have a cron job that syncs my Google calendar to
/home/dfs/.reminders/060-google.inc every half hour.

Regards,

Dianne.