[Remind-Fans] using remind with dropbox

[Reid Thompson]

On 03/01/2011 11:42 AM, Dave Parker wrote:
> I'd like to be able to run remind at home in daemon mode and be able to add
> a reminder for home from my computer at work by changing the file there and
> having dropbox change the file automatically at home.  When I try to get
> remind started with the remind file not in a root file it says there's an
> error "can't access file".  I don't totally understand all that's written in
> the man page, but I get the impression that (maybe) you can only run remind
> from the root directory.
>
> Other than that, maybe I'm using the wrong quotes or something... here's
> what I'm trying:
>
> remind -z '-kgmessage -buttons "OK:1" -default "OK" -center -font "serif 16"
> -fg "#46f" -bg "#000000" -fg "#20E834" -wrap -title "here is a reminder for
> you" %s&' "/home/david/Dropbox/Main Documents/.homereminders-popups"
>
> I've tried with single quotes and the quote thingie to the left of the "1"
> key.  Is it the space I have in the folder name? (It would be a real
> headache to change that as I have all sorts of references to it elsewhere)
>

try
ln -s "/home/david/Dropbox/Main Documents/.homereminders-popups"   ~/.homereminders-popups

remind -z '-kgmessage -buttons "OK:1" -default "OK" -center -font "serif 16"
  -fg "#46f" -bg "#000000" -fg "#20E834" -wrap -title  "here is a reminder for
  you" %s&' ~/.homereminders-popups