[Remind-Fans] include txt files instead of .rem files in directory and open that file

[Dave Parker]

Thank you all for the great ideas.

Two follow up questions:

1) I'm not totally familiar with this type of mailing list (more used to
google groups)  If I reply normally from my gmail as I'm doing here, does
my reply go to everyone in the list (and is that okay?) or just to the
people that replied to my original question.

2) Does everyone here run their computer 24:7?  I'm thinking of getting one
of those plug computers to run an ongoing instance of remind and also
btsync.  Is that a good idea or no? (I'm nervous of getting into the world
of "servers", i.e. computers with no gui)


On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Brian Carter <robotmachine at gmail.com>wrote:

> I use todo.txt in combination with Remind. When something is coming due in
> Remind (for me I just use 'due tomorrow' as the determiner) a Cron job adds
> that as an (A) todo in my todo.txt file. Then I have another script that
> pushes my todo list every day to my phone so I can see easily check if
> anything is due in the next two days.
>
>
> On 26 May 2014 09:21, Ruthard Baudach <ruthard.baudach at web.de> wrote:
>
> > >== Auszüge aus der Nachricht von  Dave Parker vom 2014-05-22 01:00:
> > > I am starting to use a file based todo system (one directory holding
> text
> > > files which are the "todos") and I had the idea that maybe I could just
> > > include that directory and have some sort of rem statement within the
> > file
> > > that would run the file itself (i.e. just open the text file) when the
> > > date/time came up.
> > >
> > > Is this possible?
> >
> > depends on what you mean...
> >
> > Idea 1)
> >   remind does not know about extensions. If the file contains valid
> >   reminder input, it may have every extension you like.
> >   Thus:
> >
> >     include mytextfile.txt
> >
> >   works perfectly well, as long as mytextfile.txt contains reminder
> >   commands
> >
> >
> > Idea 2)
> >   to open a file, use the RUN command:
> >
> >   2000-01-01 AT 01:01 RUN my-favorite-editor-or-pager
> > /path/to/mytextfile.txt
> >
> > Idea 3)
> >   remind is IMHO not suited to manage todos -- there is no easy method
> >   to manage deadlines, priorities, contexts and projects.
> >
> >   Had a look on todo.sh by Gina Trapani (todotxt.com)
> >
> >   I would love to create a interface for remind and todo.sh, just didn't
> >   have the opportunity.
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > Ruthard
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