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; holidays SET Week_2 8 SET Week_3 15 REM Sun Jun [Week_3] +14 MSG Father's Day %b% REM Sun May [Week_2] +14 MSG Mother's Day %b% REM July 4 +14 MSG Independence Day in the USA %b% REM Sun Mar 8 ++2 MSG Daylight Saving Time starts in the USA %b% REM SUN Nov 1 ++2 MSG Daylight Saving Time ends in the USA %b%
; chores REM ONCE RUN echo floss >> ~/.todo #every day! REM 1 +7 MSG rent due %b%
; payday REM 31 Mar 2005 *14 MSG It's payday. # biweekly, put in one of your pay dates
; show sunrise/sunset SET $LongDeg 71 SET $LongMin 10 SET $LongSec 30 SET $LatDeg 42 SET $LatMin 20 SET $LatSec 27 MSG sunrise at [sunrise(trigdate())], sunset at [sunset(trigdate())], next full moon at [moontime(2)] on [moondate(2)]%
; prettify the sunrise/sunset/moon data fset _srtd() coerce("STRING", _no_lz(_am_pm(sunrise(today())))) fset _sstd() coerce("STRING", _no_lz(_am_pm(sunset(today())))) fset _srtm() coerce("STRING", _no_lz(_am_pm(sunrise(today()+1)))) fset _sstm() coerce("STRING", _no_lz(_am_pm(sunset(today()+1)))) MSG Sun is up today from [_srtd()] to [_sstd()].%"%"% MSG Next full moon: [mon(moondate(2))] [day(moondate(2))], [year(moondate(2))].%"%"%
; simple countdown to a date fset _vacdays() coerce("STRING", trigdate()-today()) + plural((trigdate()-today()), " day") REM August 15 2006 +90 MSG You have [_vacdays()] left until you go to Itchy 'n' Scratchy Land!%"%"% ; you can achieve a similar effect with the builtin substitution filter REM August 15 2006 +90 MSG Holiday %b.
; more elaborate date-based math (example: weight goal) fset _curweight() 240 fset _wtweeks() coerce("STRING", (trigdate()-today())/7) + plural((trigdate()-today())/7, " week") fset _wtdays() coerce("STRING", (trigdate()-today())) + plural((trigdate()-today()), " day") fset _pounds() coerce("STRING", (2*(trigdate()-today())/7)) + plural(2*((trigdate()-today())/7), " pound") fset _finweight() coerce("STRING", (_curweight()-(2*(trigdate()-today())/7))) + plural(2*((trigdate()-today())/7), " pound") REM May 31 2006 +365 MSG Goal is to go from [_curweight()] to [_finweight()] by May 31. REM You have [_wtdays()] ([_wtweeks()]) to lose [_pounds()]!
; add info to a reminder not viewable in calendar mode (wyrd) but viewable in default mode with rem -q (bound to "r" in wyrd) ; text contained within %" and %" will display in calendar mode (wyrd) ; %_%_ starts a paragraph, and %_ represents a new line of text REM Apr 1 2006 MSG %"some title that displays in calendar mode%" %_%_and more info for default mode with rem -q%_this being a new line of text
; trigger a reminder on the second Thursday of every month, but only from ; May 2007 through September 2009 REM Thu 8 UNTIL Oct 1 2009 SATISFY [trigdate() >= '2007-05-01'] MSG second Thursday
; Garbage day is every other Thursday, *but* if Monday of that week ; is a holiday (is omitted), then garbage day is moved to Friday. We use ; SCANFROM so that we can search for Mondays up to a week in the past ; (Apr 3 is a Monday). FSET _omitthurs(d) iif(isomitted(d), "OMIT Thu AFTER", "") REM Apr 3 2006 *14 SCANFROM [trigger(today()-7)] SATISFY 1 REM [trigger(trigdate()+3)] [_omitthurs(trigdate())] MSG garbage day