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

[Daniel A Graham]

Paul,

Good idea. What about a monthly crontab along the following lines?

cd appropriate-directory
thismonth=`date +"%B"`
cat  $thismonth >> archive
echo "" > $thismonth
ln -sf $thismonth current

-Dan

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:42:22 -0600, Paul Hinze wrote:
> I like that idea.  The only detail I would change would be to archive
> the previous year's reminders rather than delete them.  In certain
> situations, I'd like to be able to check my calendar back in time just
> in case I need to know when that meeting was last year, the last time
> I saw so and so, etc.  My current significantly-less-than-ideal
> process involves moving chunks of old reminders into one big
> 'past.rem' file.
> 
> So, as we're having this much needed discussion I'd just like to bring
> in this point: it would be nice to easily purge, but it would be even
> better to have the option to easily archive expired reminders.
> 
> Paul
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