[Remind-Fans] how to keep .reminders file clean?

[Daniel A Graham]

I've been thinking about including files in my .reminders named 
'january', 'february' and so forth. Initially these files would be 
empty and I would place only transient, one-shot reminders for the 
current month in the appropriate file perhaps using a link named 
'current' to point to the current month. When the same month rolls 
around in the next year I would then delete all the entries in that 
month's file and start again. This way I would just be keeping the last 
year's worth of transient reminders. Reactions?

-Dan

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:14:24 -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:
> Martin Walk wrote:
> 
>> how do you keep your .reminders file clean:
>> how do you remove expired one-time reminders from the file?
>> is there a mechanism for that in remind or do you have to do it manually?
> 
> You have to do it manually.  Ancient (2.x) versions of Remind had an
> option to purge expired reminders.  However, with 3.x and Remind's
> expression mechanism, there is in general no way for Remind to know
> for sure that a reminder has expired and will never reappear.
> 
> I'm trying to figure out a nice way to do this... any ideas?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David.
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