[Remind-Fans] Attaching notes to an event

[Daniel Martins]

Another possibility (in Emacs) is using remind integrated with planner-el as
I do.

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PlannerAndRemind

Daniel

2008/1/15, Phil Snowberger <psnowber at cse.nd.edu>:
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:08:09PM -0800, Adam Richards wrote:
> > To fully replace Outlook I need to be able to attach "notes" to
> > an event.  Perhaps arbitrary meta-data?  A place where I can
> > store more verbose documentation than what is practical with a
> > MSG description?  Meeting room numbers, conference bridge
> > phonenumbers, lists, URL links, etc etc etc...
>
> [snip]
>
> > Or is there another way of doing this with multiple files?
>
> I worked up a solution that worked for me, and it went like this:
>
> I use vim, and I keep my remind files in ~/reminders.  I created a
> directory ~/reminders/notes, and added it to vim's 'path' variable by
> adding "set path+=~/reminders/notes" to my ~/.vimrc file
>
> To attach a note to a file, I create a new file in ~/reminders/notes,
> say "AmazonPrime" for a note on my amazon prime membership expiration.
> Then I'll add a bit of text to the reminder for it, like
>
>   REM Dec 18 2008 MSG %"Amazon Prime expires%" @AmazonPrime@ %b%
>
> In wyrd, 'e' while the cursor is on a calendar item takes you to the
> responsible line in your reminders file.  Then in vim, you can put the
> cursor on the "AmazonPrime" and use the magic 'gf' command, and it will
> open ~/reminders/notes/AmazonPrime.  There's nothing magic about
> enclosing it in @s, except to distinguish it and maybe add syntax
> highlighting to it.
>
> It's a fairly manual solution, but again, it worked for me.
>
> hth,
> --Phil
>
> --
> Phil Snowberger -- psnowber at cse.nd.edu
> Department of Computer Science and Engineering
> University of Notre Dame
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