What is the simplest date reminder method?

[Matt Graham]

From: joe at actionline.com
> (1) First, what would the PLUG brain rust

I *like* that typo.

> ideally, I think I would like to have a command line
> shell script where on the command line, I could just type:
> $ remember "Dr. appointment Jan 25 at 12 pm" <E>
> And 24-hours before that date/time, a small, bright-yellow
> window would pop up on the top left corner of my desktop with
> that message.

This works in KDE 3.5; the syntax is different in KDE 4, but I don't *have*
KDE 4 on this machine.

shell:~$ xhost +local:
(only have to do that once)
shell:~$ at 10am Jul 31
at> export DISPLAY=0:0
at> dcop --user YOUR_USERNAME --all-sessions knotes KNotesIface newNote
Remember "Remember this here text" 
at> ^D

Wrap some shell around that, so you can just do "remember.sh 10am Jul 31
'Remember this'".  Simple, if you're running KDE 3.x.

(What *have* they replaced DCOP with in KDE 4, anyway?  It's useful enough
that they had to have invented something like it....)

> (2) When I click on the digital clock on my start line,
> an image like this: http://www.upquick.com/temp/calendar.jpg
> appears and I can't find any explanation for why there are
> different colored boxes around some dates, nor what the icon
> in the lower left corner does, not what the up/down arrows in
> the bottom right corner are for, nor what any other functions
> of this clock do.

The colored dates are holidays in your locale.  See how Christmas, New Year's
Day, and Groundhog Day are colored?  Which WM/DE are you using?  The analogous
icons/arrows do stuff in the clock/calendar in KDE 3.5.

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