Calendar with recurring tasks?

[Bill Davidsen]

Gordon Charrick wrote:
> It's been a while since I went looking for a calendar that handles this 
> simple task only to be repeatedly disappointed. This is one feature that 
> (uggh) Outlook handles right.
> 
> I want to keep track of monthly (or quarterly, or whatever) bills that 
> recur. Assume it's Jan 1st and you have three bills due this month. You 
> look at your task list and see the three bills along with the date 
> they're due. You pay bill A and check off the task for that bill. Now 
> you look at your task list and see 2 bills still due in January and one 
> due in February. Pretty simple and logical way to keep track of monthly 
> bills or other tasks that need to be done regularly, but haven't found 
> any Linux apps that can handle this task. Anyone have any
> 
I have been using the "remind" program for years. It takes input in text files 
and can generate task lists, text calendars for email, or HTML calendars to your 
web size. It handles things like "first tuesday after the first monday", the 
bizarre rules about when US holidays have been moved to make three day weekend 
and remove historical significance, and the like.

Also does differences, so you can print not only the birthday of kids but their 
age this year, anniversaries, last friday in the quarter, Easter, whatever. And 
you can generate documentation or actually execute programs, which is also handy.

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