What front end (PIM?) to use with pilot-link?

[Bob Goodwin USA]

Chris G wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:25:54AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 05 May 2008 10:13:19 +0100
>> Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Are there any PIMs or similar applications available in Fedora which
>>> will run in the background under X and produce pop up reminders (or
>>> similar)? 
>>>       
>> I use kalarm, which comes as part of the kdepim rpm.  It works fine on my Gnome
>> desktop.
>>
>>     
> I've relaised I have one requirement which seems rather basic to me
> but nothing suggested seems to offer yet.  I want to be able to set
> reminders that will repeat before the event until (and only until) I
> have 'done' it.
>
> Most of the things I want to set reminders for are such things as
> regular payments that need to be made (small company, tax, etc.).
> So what I want is a reminder that pops up, say, seven days before and
> then pops up every day *until* I tell the reminder program that I have
> done whatever it is reminding me about.  I guess it's more of a
> reminder program to tell me to do things that I want, rather than a
> calender, although I want it to be a calender to tell me when I have a
> dentist's appointment as well.
>
> Any ideas for a utility that will do what I want?
>
>   

I installed "tkremind" last week and it appears to do what you describe.

Bob Goodwin.