Unix-way reminder
On Habré they write a lot about improving the efficiency of their work, an important part of this process is managing their time. From my point of view, without a tool, time management will not work well, either you are immersed in the task, forget about everything and work effectively on it, or you constantly twitch to check whether it is time to switch to something, thereby losing efficiency.
Search in a habr showed that still nobody told about the tool which I decided to use. An important difference of this tool is that it is a real unix-way, which hints at its identical work on all GNU / Linux distributions, although the utility is rumored to work on Apple's OS and even on MS Windows (cygwin), although the author is not glad to such use.
So, the remind utility is presented to you, the concept is quite simple - all events are entered into a configuration file with a special syntax, for example:
We want a reminder about lunch every working day:
perhaps it is better to start reminding about lunch in 10 minutes, every 5 minutes:
The utility syntax is quite rich, you can read about it in man and in the articles indicated in the end of the article.
After the schedule is recorded in the file, you need to start remind in the demonic mode:
as you can see, zenity mentioned on the Habré was used to display graphic reminders, but other utilities, such as xmessage or gxmessage, could be used instead.
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You can start the daemon with your hands, from shell shell initialization scripts or using graphical shell as you prefer.
I hope thanks to this utility you will stop forgetting about dinner, birthdays of relatives, meetings and key points of the workflow.
Some useful links
www.linuxjournal.com/article/3529
wiki.43folders.com/index.php/Remind_use_case_1
Search in a habr showed that still nobody told about the tool which I decided to use. An important difference of this tool is that it is a real unix-way, which hints at its identical work on all GNU / Linux distributions, although the utility is rumored to work on Apple's OS and even on MS Windows (cygwin), although the author is not glad to such use.
So, the remind utility is presented to you, the concept is quite simple - all events are entered into a configuration file with a special syntax, for example:
We want a reminder about lunch every working day:
REM Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri AT 12:30 MSG
perhaps it is better to start reminding about lunch in 10 minutes, every 5 minutes:
REM Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri AT 12:30 +10 *5 MSG
The utility syntax is quite rich, you can read about it in man and in the articles indicated in the end of the article.
After the schedule is recorded in the file, you need to start remind in the demonic mode:
remind -z "-k/usr/bin/zenity --info --title=Remind --text=\%s" /home/worldmind/.reminders &
as you can see, zenity mentioned on the Habré was used to display graphic reminders, but other utilities, such as xmessage or gxmessage, could be used instead.
')
You can start the daemon with your hands, from shell shell initialization scripts or using graphical shell as you prefer.
I hope thanks to this utility you will stop forgetting about dinner, birthdays of relatives, meetings and key points of the workflow.
Some useful links
www.linuxjournal.com/article/3529
wiki.43folders.com/index.php/Remind_use_case_1
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/130330/
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