[Remind-Fans] ANN: remind2palm.pl

[Mike Hostetler]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:56:31 -0400 (EDT), David F. Skoll
<dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:
> You could use a tag for that.  Eg:
> 
> REM 4 August TAG PALM MSG David and Norine's anniversary
> REM Wed MSG Don't put this in the Palm file.
> 
> If you run remind -p on that in August, you get:
> 
> 2004/08/04 * PALM * * David and Norine's anniversary
> 2004/08/04 * * * * Don't put this in the Palm file.
> 2004/08/11 * * * * Don't put this in the Palm file.
> 2004/08/18 * * * * Don't put this in the Palm file.
> 2004/08/25 * * * * Don't put this in the Palm file.
> 
> Other than for the -p format, TAGs have no effect on the reminder.
> 

Hmm not bad.  Accept I probably wouldn't remember to put the tag in.  
The quite messy idea I'm playing with in my head is:

1.) Put the reminders before the delimiter into a temp file.
2.) Run remind -p on the temp file.
3.) Do the remind2palm voodoo.
4.) re-write ~/.reminders to put the delimiter on top (what I do now).

Anyone else have a say on what they would prefer? 

The -p would be much easier to parse, especially since the date would
be in a common format.

And since I have your ear:  Is remind internationalized/localized? 
Or, more succintly -- does the date format of remind -p change based
on locale?

Thanks for the input -- and thanks for remind!  It's a great program!
-- 
Mike Hostetler
thehaas at binary.net
http://www.binary.net/thehaas