Alarm programs - recommendations wanted

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
<mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> Steve Searle wrote:
>> 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 latitude and longitude, and any other
>> number of things.
>>
>> But then I'm a mutt devotee also.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
> I am another remind user. I like the fact that I can have one file
> with all the holidays and such, and then each user can have their
> own specific events, and link include the system folder. (INCLUDE
> /usr/share/remind/remind) I have a .reminders file in /etc/skel that
> just has the INCLUDE so that users do not have to figure out where
> it is. I have a monthly cron job that mails the HTML calendar to
> each user. Including quite a few that do not use the system, but
> have get it on another e-mail account. As you said, you can also get
> daily or weekly reminders. I have modified the scripts so they only
> produce the output for one user, so they can use it in their own
> cron job. Some people want the daily or weekly e-mails, and some do not.
>
> You also have the option of putting the system calendar up as a web
> page - great for an internal web server.
>
> Like Steve, I do not use the pop-up alarm function, so you will have
> to see if that meets your needs. There is also the a GUI that will
> display the calendar, as well as let you add events. It also lets
> you set the pop-up options, have it e-mail you the reminders if the
> pop-up program is killed. You can also have it show you the days
> events when you start it.

Together with remind, for pop-ups, I use xmessage.

Paul