[Remind-Fans] newbie question

[John Shafer]

Hey all,

I just want to thank all of you who have taken time to respond to my 
questions about remind.  They were most clarifying!  Andreas, I really 
appreciated your insights into using remind on Mac OS X.  Thanks again 
everyone and I'm sure I'll have more questions in the future!

John

On Mar 12, 2005, at 4:12 AM, A. Klostermaier 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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John T. Shafer
Graduate Student
Dept. of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Tel:  (574) 631-4307	
E-mail:  jshafer at nd.edu