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

[Chris G]

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:59:21PM -0400, Bob Goodwin USA wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes, thank you, tkremind is now on my shortlist.

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Chris Green