Remind

Remind is a sophisticated calendar and alarm program. It includes the following features:

• A sophisticated scripting language and intelligent handling of exceptions and holidays.
• Plain-text, PDF, PostScript and HTML output.
• Timed reminders and pop-up alarms.
• A friendly graphical front-end for people who don't want to learn the scripting language.
• Facilities for both the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars.
• Support for 12 different languages.

License

Remind is Free Software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2

Screenshots

Everybody loves screenshots. Here you go.

Intro Video

I made a (longish) Introduction to Remind video on YouTube. Best viewed in full-screen mode at 1920x1080 resolution.

Download Remind

The current version of remind is 05.00.05 released on 2024-09-02.

• Version 05.00.05:	remind-05.00.05.tar.gz
• GPG Signature:	remind-05.00.05.tar.gz.sig

 

Verify the Signature

To verify the GPG signature, run:

    gpg --verify remind-05.00.05.tar.gz.sig

You will need to have my public key in your GnuPG keyring.

Install Remind

What the heck do you do with a tar.gz file? Remind is designed to run on UNIX and Linux. As such, it's distributed as source code that you need to compile. If you are on a Linux or UNIX system, the build process is the usual:

tar xfz remind-05.00.05.tar.gz && cd remind-05.00.05 && ./configure && make && make test && sudo make install

Entirely painless. But do read the README file for other ways to build.

Public git Repository

We have a public git respository you can clone if you want to live on the bleeding edge:

https://salsa.debian.org/dskoll/remind

The above repo is a mirror of the official git repo at https://git.skoll.ca/Skollsoft-Public/Remind

Bug Reports

If you find a bug in Remind, or would like to suggest an improvement, please email me... email details are on the Contact Page.

Remind-related Sites and Mailing List

• We run a mailing list for fans of Remind.
• Courtesy of OFTC, there is a #remind IRC channel for people to hang out on. On that channel, I am known as dfs.
• We have a Remind Wiki.
• There are presentation slides from a talk about Remind.

Remind Helpers

• Remind ships with four helper programs:
  • rem2ps generates PostScript calendars.
  • rem2pdf generates PDF, SVG, PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript calendars. It is a modern replacement for rem2ps and can handle UTF-8 input and Unicode rendering.
  • rem2html generates HTML calendars.
  • tkremind provides an X Window GUI for Remind.
• Paul M. Foster has an HTML front/back-end written in PHP.
• Daniel Graham has a wxPython front/back-end called wxRemind.
• Mark Atwood has written rem2ics, a program to convert the output of Remind to RFC 2445 iCalendar format.
• Martin Michel has a program called remmy that converts a subset of Remind scripting to iCalendar format. Although it handles only a subset of Remind's syntax, it does have the advantage of preserving repeating events faithfully.
• Patrick Hof has ical2rem.rb, a Ruby script that goes the other way... it converts iCalendar format to Remind.
• Justin Alcorn wrote ical2rem which is a Perl script to convert iCalendar format to Remind.
• Richard Kelly has a syntax-highlighting file for the Kate text editor.
• Wyrd is a curses-based front-end for Remind written in OCaml, originally written by Paul Pelzl and now maintained by Jochen Sprickerhof.
• Jochen Sprickerhof also has a number of Remind helpers written in Python:
  • A library and command-line tools (rem2ics, ics2rem) to convert between Remind and iCalendar.
  • A Radicale (CalDAV) storage back-end for Remind and Abook. This allows syncing between Remind and Android.
  • A tool to sync from CalDAV to Remind and vice-versa.
• remindcal is another curses-based front-end for Remind. This one is by Sergio (realsirjoe) and is written in Go.
• Mathieu Laparie has written remint, which is a simple text UI for Remind, written as a pure Bash script.
• Gunther Reißig has a library for implementing German Holidays.
• Joop Kiefte has a set of Remind files that implement the Baháʼí calendar.
• Hong Wu has a Remind syntax highlighter for Microsoft Visual Studio. The source for this extension is on GitHub.

If you've written a program designed to work with Remind and would like it linked from this page, please email me.