[Remind-Fans] Fwd: My Remind scheduling script and thoughts on growlnotify

[Manu Kaul]

Thanks David! Yep I looked into the server mode and I don't think the -z
option works that well when it comes to putting remind in daemon mode. I was
able to kick off growl notifications when I ran remind from the command line
but the moment I kicked off remind as a daemon.. I got no notifications at
all. So I am not a big fan of running it as a daemon! :)
But I suppose you are right in pointing out that I can always have the DAILY
activities and the TIMED activities go in separate files and then run remind
separately for them.. it might give me more flexibility that way. I still
have the problem that I keep getting multiple instances of the SAME message
being published to me by GrowlNotify. So say in my previous e-mail I had
three timed reminders kicking off at 5 min intervals.. say 1500, 1505 an
1510. Then at say 1505 I see 10 notifications of the very same message...
this is annoying to say the least. Any help would be appreciated. I would
like to stray away from having to write a script if possible as I think
remind with geektools should be apt enough to do the trick.




On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:04 PM, David F. Skoll <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>wrote:

> Manu Kaul wrote:
>
> > Still working on it using geektools. I get it to work but there are some
> > annoying bits I want to iron out before I can post an alternative
> solution.
> > In the meanwhile does anyone know if there is a way of picking up ONLY
> timed
> > reminders? The thing is that I would like to see growl notifications for
> > only the timed ones and not the DAILY ones... the problem arises because
> I
> > use geektools to call reminder every 5 minutes or so and it keeps
> repeating
> > the daily reminders as well
> > So any ideas would be welcome.
>
> The "-k" option is a kludge.  To do what you want, you'd really need
> to isolate your timed reminders in their own file, and only run that
> file with the "-k" option.
>
> If you can hack with a scripting language, you might also want to
> investigate
> the "-z0" option.  This puts Remind in "server mode" in which it runs as
> a coprocess, communicating with another program over stdin/stdout.  This
> is how TkRemind works; see the SERVER MODE section of the TkRemind man
> page.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
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