Alarm programs - recommendations wanted

[Chris G]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 02:46:04PM +0100, 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 lattitude and longitude, and any other
> number of things.
> 
> But then I'm a mutt devotee also.
> 
I am a mutt person too (OP), I've looked at Remind several times and
it's never really sold itself to me but maybe I'll take another harder
look at it.

-- 
Chris Green