What is the simplest date reminder method?

[Kevin Fries]

Is this what you are looking for?

   http://linuxlibrary.org/command-line/note/

Kevin

On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 10:02 -0700, Matt Graham wrote:
> 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.
>