Reminder Program

[lost_in_space]

Does anybody have a recommendation on reminder/calendar programs for linux (ubuntu)?

I'd like something that pops up and reminds me to do my 90 day report.

There's a program called 'remind' in synaptic, has anybody had any experience with it, or 'xcal?'

Before I start to experiment, I thought I'd ask for some input.

[niller74]

The calender within Evolution is pretty good. I am sure you could configure it to do reminders.

[dave_boo]

KAlarm is very good; I use it.

[slackula]

If you are handy with a command line then it is pretty easy to send a system email with either 'at' or 'cron' to do. Type 'man at' or 'man cron' in a terminal for more info without the ' and '.

If you have a Gmail account then the calendar function can be set up to send emails on event triggers without the need to download and install extra stuff.

[jackk]

Open a terminal and type :

$ zenity --warning --text="90 day report"

It has a lot of options (calendar, popup, tray icon...) :

$ zenity --help

You could also use a Text to Speech synthesis software like 'festival' and run :

$ 'echo "90 day report" | festival --tts:

There are plenty of notification tools, all you need is to create a cron job.

[lost_in_space]

Thanks folks.

I'll experiment around with those.

[astral]

ReminderFox, the add on for Firefox, is platform independent.

[Beacher]

I'm so forgetful at times that I would forget to activate the reminder in software, so I bought a small white board and always remember to update the next 90-day report date. Since doing that, I've never been late reporting.