lost_in_space Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niller74 Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 The calender within Evolution is pretty good. I am sure you could configure it to do reminders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_boo Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 KAlarm is very good; I use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slackula Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackk Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lost_in_space Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 Thanks folks. I'll experiment around with those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 ReminderFox, the add on for Firefox, is platform independent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beacher Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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