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 -- (o< www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_ No MS products were used in the creation of this message 14:42:43 up 34 days, 3:04, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.00
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