[Remind-Fans] best practice for alerts by email

[Paul Pelzl]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:53:36PM -0400, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 14:37 -0400, Paul Pelzl wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:08:13AM -0400, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> > > I want to add a reminder, and as part of it, I want to specify that I
> > > should get an alert via email 15 minutes before the event starts. 
> > 
> > This mailing list thread may help:
> > http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/private/remind-fans/2006/000836.html
> 
> Thanks for the tip, Paul.
> 
> I added this tip to the wiki:
> 
> http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/Remind_FAQ#How_can_I_get_emailed_15_minutes_before_some_events.3F
> 
> I may still need to fine-tune the logic some, since I thinking about
> having these reminders go my cell phone (via email), and I expect there
> are some things I might add a trigger for, but wouldn't want to
> interrupt myself with a text message for. 

One option here is to put all your text-message reminders in a separate
file, which could then be INCLUDEd into ~/.reminders .  The background
emailer process could be easily configured to operate only on the file
containing text-message reminders.

Paul