What is the simplest date reminder method?

[Stephen]

i know back int he day one of the admins on a solaris farm i dealt
with spent so much time on hsi servers he created a chron job that
used wall to splash his "admin" server based on an events calendar he
created as a flat file... was some neat shell scripting about 90% was
over my head at the time. id still say 80% still is :-)

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Kevin Fries <kevin at fries-biro.com> wrote:
> Tomboy is another package, that has both a GUI and CLI interface
> (tomboycli)
>
> Look at the reminder plugin also.
>
> 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.
>>
>
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Stephen