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Remind: A sophisticated calendar and alarm program

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Re: Remind: A sophisticated calendar and alarm program

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Post by upofadown »

At 6am every day I run a script that dumps the scheduled events for the day out of remind. If there are any events the script:

* Makes a unique noise on the house announcement system.

* Sends me an email with the events.

* Sends me a SMS with the events.

My long term events archive is just the reminders file which I have never bothered to truncate. It's got easy to search stuff in there from decades ago.

Re: Remind: A sophisticated calendar and alarm program

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Post by n3t »

upofadown wrote: post #3

At 6am every day I run a script that dumps the scheduled events for the day out of remind. If there are any events the script: * Makes a unique noise on the house announcement system. * Sends me an email with the events. * Sends me a SMS with the events. My long term events archive is just the reminders file which I have never bothered to truncate. It's got easy to search stuff in there from decades ago.

> house announcement system

Please tell us more!

Re: Remind: A sophisticated calendar and alarm program

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Post by ramses0 »

n3t wrote: post #4
upofadown wrote: post #3

At 6am every day I run a script that dumps the scheduled events for the day out of remind. If there are any events the script: * Makes a unique noise on the house announcement system. * Sends me an email with the events. * Sends me a SMS with the events. My long term events archive is just the reminders file which I have never bothered to truncate. It's got easy to search stuff in there from decades ago.

> house announcement system Please tell us more!

With Home Assistant (or even Apple HomeKit Shortcuts) it's relatively trivial.

Shortcuts: Intercom: Events: Get [1] Event From [All Calendars]

https://i.postimg.cc/X750NyjC/IMG-9677.jpg

People dump on Apple/HomeKit (deservedly!), but only because there is so much untapped potential!

Re: Remind: A sophisticated calendar and alarm program

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Post by madamelic »

I love tools like this but I am currently in a cycle where I question why a tool has to operate like this.

These text-driven tools always come across like "programming the space shuttle to drive down the street for ice cream". Like, do we really need... all of this. It's beautiful and neat but does it solve the problem in a user friendly way?

Sometimes it seems like there is a lost art to simple but deep products. Many of these replacements tools are starting to seem more about demonstrating how nerdy you are by over-complicating the solution in a novel one-off way.

A great example of this, in my opinion, is Taskwarrior's sync in both 2.0 and 3.0. Just use auto-discovery of peers using a shared secret key then negotiate the connection seamlessly. I don't want to do SSL setup so I can have my tasks on two computers.

Re: Remind: A sophisticated calendar and alarm program

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Post by jrm4 »

madamelic wrote: post #8

I love tools like this but I am currently in a cycle where I question why a tool has to operate like this. These text-driven tools always come across like "programming the space shuttle to drive down the street for ice cream". Like, do we really need... all of this. It's beautiful and neat but does it solve the problem in a user friendly way? Sometimes it seems like there is a lost art to simple but deep products. Ma…

For me it's not "overcomplication," it's strong interoperability with a workflow I like, specifically one that was kind of complicated to write once, but afterwards operates in a way such that I don't have to think at all.

I've been using this for years, so perhaps today there may be some voice or AI driven way to do this but -- first I add weekly events. And for one off events, I have a bash script that's like "whats the event?" then "what's the date/time" using standard linux date formatting, and returns an error and loops if wrong. (So e.g. "tomorrow" works, or "monday 4pm"

Then for retrieval, I can have it do notify prompts, and/or be a part of my bash prompt, and also throw up a nice HTML calendar.

Re: Remind: A sophisticated calendar and alarm program

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Post by skydhash »

madamelic wrote: post #8

I love tools like this but I am currently in a cycle where I question why a tool has to operate like this. These text-driven tools always come across like "programming the space shuttle to drive down the street for ice cream". Like, do we really need... all of this. It's beautiful and neat but does it solve the problem in a user friendly way? Sometimes it seems like there is a lost art to simple but deep products. Ma…

The nice aspect of these text driven tools is in the name. Being text driven means they are nearly universal. There's nothing more versatile than text on a computer. When I think on anything that operate on text, it feels more like having a set of workflow that act on my data, that the computer doing (and someone else) doing obscure incantation.

> I don't want to do SSL setup so I can have my tasks on two computers.

I use to think that way, then I found that I never use two computers at the same time. At most it would be using one to remote on another, or using one to do stuff I can't do on another (like browsing the web when installing an OS). So I just use my laptop as my main computer. I have some files on my home server and mostly use my phone for HN reading and communication. If I really want to sync something, I just share files using sftp/smb/http/....

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