Reminders (Pop-up & E-mail) with Unix? 60
mnjaga asks: "What is your solution for handling 'reminders' with Unix? I was using a little freeware called KirbyAlarm , when I was using Windows. After migrating to Linux, it took a while to get a handle on things. Currently, I am using a mixture of cron, remind, and mail . However, I am interested in a better solution than what I am presently using. How do you handle your pop-up and e-mail reminders?"
Sunbird might work (Score:2, Informative)
small shell scrip (Score:2, Informative)
DATE=$1
shift
echo "echo xmsg.sh $@ | at $DATE"
echo xmsg.sh $@ | at $DATE
and
[10:19] [nri@sammy:nri] $ cat bin/xmsg.sh
DISPLAY=:0.0
then usage is
xat 10:21am today "Hello world"
KAlarm (Score:4, Informative)
Re:KAlarm (Score:3, Informative)
KAlarm is pretty much what I like: small, easy to use and flexible. If you need more depth, KOrganizer is there, and if you need an entire contact solution, KOrganizer fits right into Kontact.
Of course, each of these applications can be manipulated by scripts in a variety of languages from python to bash through DCOP, or you can use classic commandline calls.
Small solutions that step up and aggregate to complete solutions - the Unix way.
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Evan
Re:Shark jumping (Score:3, Informative)
zenity --info --info-text "Text Goes Here"
Quick and dirty in OS X (Score:2, Informative)
notifications (Score:2, Informative)
Important email (== personal email and, at work, new-bug email) generates one line messages there via procmail recipes. Opening my email also clears the window (write the terminal-clear sequence to the alert log).
Any decent calendar system should be capable of generating email for reminders, so when my workplace gets a (decent) calendar system the reminders will appear the same way.
I have a few other tiny tiny scripts that use this too; a "run job then alert" script that pops a line onto the log, and so forth.
This is very simple, extensible, doesn't litter my desktop with popups. Works for me!