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Remind: A sophisticated calendar and alarm program

55 points by n3t 11mo ago

jrm4 10mo 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.
upofadown 10mo 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 10mo ago
  > house announcement system Please tell us more!
  - upofadown 10mo ago
    Just some speakers hooked to an amplifier which is plugged into a computer audio output jack.
  - ramses0 10mo 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 https://i.postimg.cc/X750NyjC/IMG-9677.jpg People dump on Apple/HomeKit (deservedly!), but only because there is so much untapped potential!
ramses0 10mo ago
The best intro/wtf link is the slides: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-oclug.pdf 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]!")
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madamelic 10mo ago
I love tools like this but I am currently in a cycle where I question why a tool has to operate like this. These text-driven tools always come across like "programming the space shuttle to drive down the street for ice cream". Like, do we really need... all of this. It's beautiful and neat but does it solve the problem in a user friendly way? Sometimes it seems like there is a lost art to simple but deep products. Many of these replacements tools are starting to seem more about demonstrating how nerdy you are by over-complicating the solution in a novel one-off way. A great example of this, in my opinion, is Taskwarrior's sync in both 2.0 and 3.0. Just use auto-discovery of peers using a shared secret key then negotiate the connection seamlessly. I don't want to do SSL setup so I can have my tasks on two computers.
- jrm4 10mo ago
  For me it's not "overcomplication," it's strong interoperability with a workflow I like, specifically one that was kind of complicated to write once, but afterwards operates in a way such that I don't have to think at all. I've been using this for years, so perhaps today there may be some voice or AI driven way to do this but -- first I add weekly events. And for one off events, I have a bash script that's like "whats the event?" then "what's the date/time" using standard linux date formatting, and returns an error and loops if wrong. (So e.g. "tomorrow" works, or "monday 4pm" Then for retrieval, I can have it do notify prompts, and/or be a part of my bash prompt, and also throw up a nice HTML calendar.
  - skydhash 10mo ago
    Most of these tools are something you set once, write some scripts if it's a CLI, then forget about until someone tries to make a breaking change. Then you switch to the fork that maintains the old feature set.
    - jrm4 10mo ago
      I mean, exactly. AFAIK, Remind hasn't changed in years and neither has my workflow. (relatedly literally writing this from Openbox; sometimes software is actually just finished)
SwiftyBug 10mo ago
This is awesome! I've been looking for something to use as my calendar app. I just moved from macOS to Linux. On macOS I used the default calendar app. Because I still have an iOS device, I'd like to sync iCloud events with my computer. I've tried a combination of davmail, vdirsyncer, and calcurse. While this works, it's not a great experience. Calcurse doesn't seem to handle timezones very well and, for a TUI, it has a rather limited keyboard support (I can't copy the description text of an event, for example). I could use a GUI as long as it can handle both iCloud and Microsoft Exchange calendars.
turnTurnAROUND 10mo ago
Similar but different > turnturnturn.me

55 points by n3t 11mo ago

jrm4 10mo 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.

upofadown 10mo 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 10mo ago
> house announcement system Please tell us more!
- upofadown 10mo ago
  Just some speakers hooked to an amplifier which is plugged into a computer audio output jack.
- ramses0 10mo 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 https://i.postimg.cc/X750NyjC/IMG-9677.jpg People dump on Apple/HomeKit (deservedly!), but only because there is so much untapped potential!

ramses0 10mo ago

The best intro/wtf link is the slides: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-oclug.pdf 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]!")

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madamelic 10mo ago

I love tools like this but I am currently in a cycle where I question why a tool has to operate like this. These text-driven tools always come across like "programming the space shuttle to drive down the street for ice cream". Like, do we really need... all of this. It's beautiful and neat but does it solve the problem in a user friendly way? Sometimes it seems like there is a lost art to simple but deep products. Many of these replacements tools are starting to seem more about demonstrating how nerdy you are by over-complicating the solution in a novel one-off way. A great example of this, in my opinion, is Taskwarrior's sync in both 2.0 and 3.0. Just use auto-discovery of peers using a shared secret key then negotiate the connection seamlessly. I don't want to do SSL setup so I can have my tasks on two computers.

jrm4 10mo ago
For me it's not "overcomplication," it's strong interoperability with a workflow I like, specifically one that was kind of complicated to write once, but afterwards operates in a way such that I don't have to think at all. I've been using this for years, so perhaps today there may be some voice or AI driven way to do this but -- first I add weekly events. And for one off events, I have a bash script that's like "whats the event?" then "what's the date/time" using standard linux date formatting, and returns an error and loops if wrong. (So e.g. "tomorrow" works, or "monday 4pm" Then for retrieval, I can have it do notify prompts, and/or be a part of my bash prompt, and also throw up a nice HTML calendar.
- skydhash 10mo ago
  Most of these tools are something you set once, write some scripts if it's a CLI, then forget about until someone tries to make a breaking change. Then you switch to the fork that maintains the old feature set.
  - jrm4 10mo ago
    I mean, exactly. AFAIK, Remind hasn't changed in years and neither has my workflow. (relatedly literally writing this from Openbox; sometimes software is actually just finished)

SwiftyBug 10mo ago

This is awesome! I've been looking for something to use as my calendar app. I just moved from macOS to Linux. On macOS I used the default calendar app. Because I still have an iOS device, I'd like to sync iCloud events with my computer. I've tried a combination of davmail, vdirsyncer, and calcurse. While this works, it's not a great experience. Calcurse doesn't seem to handle timezones very well and, for a TUI, it has a rather limited keyboard support (I can't copy the description text of an event, for example). I could use a GUI as long as it can handle both iCloud and Microsoft Exchange calendars.

turnTurnAROUND 10mo ago

Similar but different > turnturnturn.me