remind

Created 6 February 2008

This document describes the unix remind(1) an open source calendar and event system. Remind can be downloaded in tarball form from the Roaring Penguin or can be installed via yum, with yum install remind. remind.x86_64

1. Overview

The remind grammar covers a number of different event types, the simplest of which is the MSG semantic which generates a message event at an indicated time. Remind features include:

• A sophisticated scripting language and intelligent handling of exceptions and holidays.
• ASCII output as well as support for HTML and other markups like PostScript.
• Timed events and reminders with popup messages.
• GUI front-end as well as the standard plain message/reminder configuration
• Support for multiple calendars (Gregorian, Hebrew, etc).
• Multilingual and localization support

Available for download at www.roaringpenguin.com. Refer to the Remind Wiki for more detailed information. Remind is not installed with the base Fedora distribution but can either be installed via tarball (see previous link) or via yum with:

bash # yum install remind remind-gui

2. The MSG event

The event type MSG is used to generate a message at a specific time. Each MSG entry can be created with a pre-event reminders at specific internals, starting at a fixed number (or specific time) prior to message event being triggered. In the following example, a MSG entry is created to fire at 4:30pm, daily, with reminders of the message occuring at 30 minute intervals. A pre-event reminder is triggered 75 minutes prior to the scheduled event.

REM AT 16:30 +75 *30 MSG This is a message at 4:30pm with reminders coming at 30 minute intervals, starting 75 mins before due

3. Scheduling

Todo: Add examples and description of scheduling events.

Stuart Moorfoot © 6 Feb 2008 foo@bund.com.au