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?"
remind (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:remind (Score:1)
Re:remind (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:remind (Score:2)
Re:remind (Score:2)
did you happen to read the post? (Score:3, Funny)
remind -- you'll regret you don't thave a life complicated enough to take full advantage of it
I'm pretty sure he's already aware of the existense of remind.
Re:did you happen to read the post? (Score:1)
KDE to teh rescue? (Score:1)
Shark jumping (Score:4, Insightful)
First "how do I play sounds when I get new email" and now "how do I pop up dialogs on a regular basis"? Ask Slashdot is obviously following the rest of Slashdot downhill in quality.
If you use KDE, try `kdialog --msgbox "This is your reminder"` from remind, cron, at, whatever you already have hooked up. Other environments have similar commands, but because you didn't give any idea of what environment you are using, it's impossible to give any specific advice.
Try reading How To Ask Questions The Smart Way [catb.org]. In fact, please Slashdot editors, make it mandatory for people to do this before submitting Ask Slashdots.
Re:Shark jumping (Score:3, Informative)
zenity --info --info-text "Text Goes Here"
Re:Shark jumping (Score:2)
Or, if you're just a plain ole X user, try xmessage.
Options are the same for both programs:
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"
Re:small shell scrip (Score:1)
apt-get install at
apt-get install gmessage
I moved the 2 scripts to
It worked. I love it!
Re:small shell scrip (Score:2)
I have scripts/files that send mail messages to my pager.
$mail_line = ("| /usr/lib/sendmail -t 2>&1 ");
$send_to = '5551212@page.metrocall.com';
concat(PIPE, "$mail_line") or die "$0: Can not open pipe $mail_line\n\t$!\n";
print PIPE "To: $send_to\n";
print PIPE "From: messenger from hell\n";
print PIPE "do something\n";
close PIPE or warn "$0: Can not close pipe $mail_line: $!\n";
Or: /usr/home/ElectricRook/.message
at 5:01 PM
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 st
ical (Score:2)
It's not perfect, but it works for me. Run in the background, it will pop up a window a few minutes before events happen.
(I also use the cronjob/send email tricks ...)
Evolution (Score:2)
cron and mail (Score:3, Insightful)
I suppose you want GUI based pop-ups? (Score:2)
Use the easy (but low tech) solution (Score:5, Funny)
You only need to remember 2 dates each year and that's easily cronable.
Re:Use the easy (but low tech) solution (Score:4, Funny)
Colleague: "Who does the cooking at your house?"
Me: "I do."
Colleague: "Well, what does your wife do then?"
Me: "Complain."
cron, mail and ... (Score:2)
With some grep(1) and a bit of sed(1), I've even got a part of my personal calendar up on the web - the part containing party and concert dates, see http://hubertf.de/parties.html [hubertf.de]. :)
- Hubert
Re:cron, mail and ... (Score:2)
Countdowntimer (Score:2)
email reminders (Score:2)
Re:email reminders (Score:2)
$ man biff
IC, your slashdot ID is 20761, but it's still no reason to recommend biff to somebody who's asking for a outlook/calender/reminder replacement.
Even us *ix-geeks are not using biff since ten years anymore.
Sorry, this is not a troll, but your answer is so last century.
Re:email reminders (Score:1)
Quick and dirty in OS X (Score:2, Informative)
If the Finder isn't the active application, its dock icon will start bouncing to get your attention and you'll see the dialog box once you click on it. You can do something more robust by using osascript and specifying a file containing a longer AppleScript, e.g. something that tells the Finder to activate and then display the dialog.
at is where it's at. (Score:1)
One time scheduled actions is exactly what it exists for. I've been doing:
xalarm (Score:1)
at, sendmail, sleep, xmessage and echo (Score:1)
Remember, ^G makes noise on the terminal.
Common Desktop Environment??? (Score:2)
The other option would be using xbiff (not to be confused with xbill) and setting up cron to e-mail yerself a reminder.
Emacs's Diary (Score:2)
Whats up? (Score:2)
Your question has nothing to do with the operating system itself. What you need is just an application that reminds you of certain dates. Just like a caleder, right? Lock at KDE and Gnome and thats all you need. I'm using KOrganizer and I can sync all my dates with my mobile phone.
Unix Desktop (Score:2)
What you want (after switching fron Windows to a *nix OS) is a Desktop Environment like KDE or Gnome. Everything you need for your day-to-day tasks is encluded. Unix-like operating systems are not much different to your old Windows experience. Look at Mac OSX, its Unix, but there are surely tools like a calender (don't know).
Jpilot reminders (Score:2)
yahoo! calendar + cellphone (Score:2)
enotes.el !!! (Score:2)
I use my very own enotes.el [cvlab.epfl.ch] under GNU/Emacs.
Mail monitor? Python + pyosd !! (Score:1)
My friend ical (Score:2)
Email notifications? Are you kidding? Maybe you've heard of this thing called google.
Old and New (Score:2)
How do you handle your pop-up and e-mail reminders?"
Long ago I used biff, xbiff and xlbiff.
Now, Evolution has pop-up reminders sufficient for my needs.
Of course, it would be nice to have more extensibility built-in to Evolution so that any script could be fired off for any particular event.
For recurring events, cron works like a champ, after you take the 3 minutes to understand its terse time specification syntax and learn that ~/.crontab needs to be crafted by invoking crontab -e.
Somebody invent a smart / impatient popup (Score:2)
In the background it could even send an email saying "Hey, I tried to remind you, but you never acknowledged me." An a
Can't speak more highly about Evolution (Score:2)
for kde (Score:2)
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 (d
I use JPilot (Score:1)