[Remind-Fans] Remind + Gcal/ical Cross Sync

[Justin Alcorn]

I do ical2rem so I have both my calendar entries and my 'reminder'
stuff, then I wrote a PHP based portal and use the following code to put
my reminders on a web page:

<?php
system('/<path>/local/bin/remind -q -iweb=1 /<path>/.reminders | sed
"s/$/<br \/>/"');
?>

the -iweb=1 sets the environment variable 'web'.  in my defs.rem file, I
have this:

IF defined("web")
    SET Sep "<span class='comment'>"
    SET NrmPre "<span class='normal'>"
    SET Nrm   "</span>"
    SET Blk   "<span>"
    SET Red   "<span class='important'>"
    SET Grn   "<span>"
    SET Ylw   "<span>"
    SET Blu   "<span class='notice'>"
    SET Mag   "<span>"
    SET Cyn   "<span>"
    SET Wht   "<span>"
    SET Gry   "<span>"
    SET BrRed "<span class='urgent'>"
    SET BrGrn "<span>"
    SET BrYlw "<span>"
    SET BrBlu "<span class='warning'>"
    SET BrMag "<span>"
    SET BrCyn "<span>"
    SET BrWht "<span>"
    SET Bull  "&bull;"
    FSET msgprefix(x) iif(x<999, BrRed, x<1001, Red, x<1400,
BrBlu,x<5000, Blu, x==9999, Sep,Bull+" "+NrmPre)
#   FSET msgsuffix(x) Nrm
ELSE
    IF (defined("plain"))
        SET Esc   ""
        SET Nrm   ""
        SET Blk   ""
        SET Red   ""
        SET Grn   ""
        SET Ylw   ""
        SET Blu   ""
        SET Mag   ""
        SET Cyn   ""
        SET Wht   ""
        SET Gry   ""
        SET BrRed ""
        SET BrGrn ""
        SET BrYlw ""
        SET BrBlu ""
        SET BrMag ""
        SET BrCyn ""
        SET BrWht ""
    ELSE
        SET Esc   CHAR(27)
        SET Nrm   Esc + "[0m"
        SET Blk   Esc + "[0;30m"
        SET Red   Esc + "[0;31m"
        SET Grn   Esc + "[0;32m"
        SET Ylw   Esc + "[0;33m"
        SET Blu   Esc + "[0;34m"
        SET Mag   Esc + "[0;35m"
        SET Cyn   Esc + "[0;36m"
        SET Wht   Esc + "[0;37m"
        SET Gry   Esc + "[30;1m"
        SET BrRed Esc + "[31;1m"
        SET BrGrn Esc + "[32;1m"
        SET BrYlw Esc + "[33;1m"
        SET BrBlu Esc + "[34;1m"
        SET BrMag Esc + "[35;1m"
        SET BrCyn Esc + "[36;1m"
        SET BrWht Esc + "[37;1m"
            FSET msgprefix(x) iif(x<998, BrRed, x<1000, Red, x<2000,
BrBlu, x<5000, Blu, Nrm)
        #   FSET msgsuffix(x) Nrm
    ENDIF
ENDIF


That way, I use -iplain=1 when I'm using a cronjob to email my reminders
to me (every day at 6am and 5pm) and -iweb=1 when I'm including on a web
page, and nothing when I'm on the command line.

My .css files define the classes to look the way I want.


Akshay Joshi wrote:
> Unfortunately, I have dialup at home, so keeping the connection on is a
> real pain (I only get billed for data I use, so the amount of time is
> not an issue). I know there is a ical2rem program, wouldn't it be
> possible to change it so that it would be a rem2ical program instead?
> Cronjobs every 5 mins would probably be a solution here. Is there any
> other way that I can turn ical into plain text?
> 
> On 9/19/07, *David F. Skoll* <dfs at roaringpenguin.com
> <mailto:dfs at roaringpenguin.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Akshay Joshi wrote:
> 
>     > I have been using remind for quite a while now, and I like it very
>     much. One
>     > of the problems I have is that I'm often on the road, and don't
>     have my
>     > desktop with me all the time, but always have access to the
>     internet in some
>     > way or form.
> 
>     So then SSH to the machine running Remind... :-)  That's what I do
>     if I don't have my laptop with me.
> 
>     Seriously, syncing between Remind and anything else is annoying at best
>     and well-nigh impossible at worst because Remind lets you express
>     reminders that are impossible to express in any other calendaring
>     system.  Maybe I'll start working on a Web-based front-end to Remind
>     that's more sophisticated than rem2html (ie, lets you add/edit/delete
>     reminders as well as viewing them.)
> 
>     Regards,
> 
>     David.
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