Alarm programs - recommendations wanted

[Steve Searle]

Around 02:33pm on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 (UK time), Bill Davidsen scrawled:

> I use "remind" because it also can do useful things like generate paper 
> calendars, handle things like election day (tuesday after the first Monday 
> in November), and generate ASCII, HTML, or Postscript output. It can not 
> only remind you of birthdays, but tell you how old the person is, and 
> quarterly things are a one-line description.
> 
> I've been using it for years, and I have a meeting input file, holidays, 
> family birthdays, league competition days, all in separate files so I can 
> merge and generate custom calendars.

Another vote for remind - although I only use it to email me the next
day's reminders rather than as an interactive "pop-up" application.  But
the configurability is brilliant, allowing for count-downs to events,
calculation of moon phases for my lattitude and longitude, and any other
number of things.

But then I'm a mutt devotee also.

Steve

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