Remind: A sophisticated calendar and alarm program

(dianne.skoll.ca)

40 points | by n3t 7 days ago ago

5 comments

  • upofadown 6 hours ago ago

    At 6am every day I run a script that dumps the scheduled events for the day out of remind. If there are any events the script:

    * Makes a unique noise on the house announcement system.

    * Sends me an email with the events.

    * Sends me a SMS with the events.

    My long term events archive is just the reminders file which I have never bothered to truncate. It's got easy to search stuff in there from decades ago.

    • n3t 3 hours ago ago

      > house announcement system

      Please tell us more!

      • ramses0 an hour ago ago

        With Home Assistant (or even Apple HomeKit Shortcuts) it's relatively trivial.

        Shortcuts: Intercom: Events: Get [1] Event From [All Calendars]

        https://i.postimg.cc/X750NyjC/IMG-9677.jpg

        People dump on Apple/HomeKit (deservedly!), but only because there is so much untapped potential!

  • ramses0 an hour ago ago

    The best intro/wtf link is the slides: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-oclu...

    tldr: REM Dec 25 MSG It's Christmas! (...and then a bunch of other fanciness inclusive of being able to put "MSG Your [$MATH] Birthday is this [$MATHDAY]!")

  • jrm4 6 hours ago ago

    Ha, not sure why this is coming up now, but it's great. I incorporate it into a few bash scripts for my prompt as well as a nice HTML calendar to look at.