[Remind-Fans] basing task recurrance schedule on completed date/time

[Daniel Martins]

If I understood what you really want, I think that emacs planner could be an
option

I use it integrated with remind and wyrd nicely!

Take a look at

http://www.plannerlove.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php

Daniel

2006/8/8, Jon Garvin <jgarvin.lists at gmail.com>:
>
> I've been on the quest for my personal holy grail of task reminder
> tools  for quite some time.  I saw a mention of 'Remind' on linux .com
> today and spent a while browsing the remind wiki and mailing list
> archives sceptically optimistic.  The  fact that  Remind has an actual
> scripting language suggests that what I need to do might actually be
> possible here, but I don't see a specific mention of it anywhere, so...
> if someone could simply tell me either "No, Outlook is still the only
> software that does that well." or "Sure, that's easy, go check out 'this
> link'." I'd greatly appreciate it.
>
> What I need is to have a task, let's say "Mow the lawn," that doesn't
> necessarily NEED to happen on the day the reminder triggers. Maybe it's
> raining, or I've got other plans, or it doesn't really need it yet, or
> it's just too damn hot.  So, I put it off for a couple days, or even
> until next week.  What I do NOT need to is put it off six days and then
> on the 7th get another reminder telling me to do it all over again.
> Instead, once I do finally get it done, I want to automatically schedule
> a new reminder for, let's say, one week from the time that I completed
> it this time.  Outlook does this extremely well, but I have yet to find
> anything for linux that does this right. Maybe Remind does, and I've
> just been oblivious this whole time? I've got my fingers crossed.
>
>
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