[Remind-Fans] Tracking N days after most recent event in a series

[Justin Alcorn]

Oh, that's useful.  I use taskwarrior to do this kind of thing with
Relative Recur, but something like

REM Mar 27 2023 SCANFROM -50 MSG Flea Treatment for cats
set nft $T
REM [nft+21] +14 MSG Flea Treatment

Because I don't always do it on the exact day. (Start reminding me at 3
weeks, keep reminding me until 5 weeks.....)  Then when I actually do it,
update one date in the file.

Brilliant!
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 12:06 PM Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans <
remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:53:21 -0500
> Tim Chase via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:
>
> >   REM Feb 6 2023 MSG Lunch with Matt
> >   REM Mar 12 2023 MSG Lunch with Matt
> >   # when new lunchtime gets scheduled
> >   # insert the event here
> >   SET lastMattLunch $T
> >   REM [lastMattLunch + 23] MSG Text Matt to schedule lunch
>
> Any time you see something like:
>
>    REM [expression + something]
>
> it should raise a red flag.  That is breaking the Remind algorithm.
>
> > so it feels like I need some sort of SCANFROM or
> > IFTRIG, but I'm not sure how that would look.
>
>    REM Mar 12 2023 SCANFROM -30 MSG Lunch with Matt
>    set lml $T
>    REM [lml+23] MSG Text Matt...
>
> (I could have used scanfrom -23, but I used -30 to give a few days leeway.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Dianne.
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