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

Tue May 27 19:35:32 EDT 2014

no, its basically a way to get the remind messages into a popup dialog:

echo $1 | yad --title="$1" --text="$1" --selectable-labels
--fontname="Segoe 16" --fore=black --justify=center --timeout=7000 --wrap
--button="Delay Reminder:2" --button="OPEN:3" --button="Completed:0"
--button="Turn into a task:1"
--window-icon="/home/david/Dropbox/MainDocuments/Documents on
DavesDellAxim/tombo notes/favicon3.ico" --geometry=+$number1+$number2
--justify="center"

yad is a gtk based dialog program, like zenity or gxmessage, but way more
versatile

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Larry Hynes <larry at larryhynes.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> e. robotmachine at gmail.com
>>>> p. 1.805-453-9760
>>>>
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