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

[Larry Hynes]

At a guess, I would hazard that 'msgAndOptns.sh' is looking for *.rem files?

[27/05] Dave Parker:
>I tried to include a folder with text files, one of which has a remind
>statement, and got this error
>
>david at ubuntu1310:~$ remind -z '-kbash
>/home/david/Dropbox/scripts/yad/msgAndOptns.sh %s &'
>/home/david/Dropbox/PersonalWiki/data/ &
>[1] 22657
>david at ubuntu1310:~$ /home/david/Dropbox/PersonalWiki/data/: No files
>matching *.rem
>Error reading /home/david/Dropbox/PersonalWiki/data/: No files matching
>*.rem
>
>
>So it looks like in my case (wanting to include a folder of text files
>instead of a specific text file) it doesn't work without the files being
>rem files :(
>
>
>
>On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Dave Parker <cedardocster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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