no, its basically a way to get the remind messages into a popup dialog: echo $1 | yad --title="$1" --text="$1" --selectable-labels --fontname="Segoe 16" --fore=black --justify=center --timeout=7000 --wrap --button="Delay Reminder:2" --button="OPEN:3" --button="Completed:0" --button="Turn into a task:1" --window-icon="/home/david/Dropbox/MainDocuments/Documents on DavesDellAxim/tombo notes/favicon3.ico" --geometry=+$number1+$number2 --justify="center"
yad is a gtk based dialog program, like zenity or gxmessage, but way more versatile On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Larry Hynes <[email protected]> wrote: > At a guess, I would hazard that 'msgAndOptns.sh' is looking for *.rem > files? > > [27/05] Dave Parker: > >> I tried to include a folder with text files, one of which has a remind >> statement, and got this error >> >> david@ubuntu1310:~$ remind -z '-kbash >> /home/david/Dropbox/scripts/yad/msgAndOptns.sh %s &' >> /home/david/Dropbox/PersonalWiki/data/ & >> [1] 22657 >> david@ubuntu1310:~$ /home/david/Dropbox/PersonalWiki/data/: No files >> matching *.rem >> Error reading /home/david/Dropbox/PersonalWiki/data/: No files matching >> *.rem >> >> >> So it looks like in my case (wanting to include a folder of text files >> instead of a specific text file) it doesn't work without the files being >> rem files :( >> >> >> >> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Dave Parker <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Thank you all for the great ideas. >>> >>> Two follow up questions: >>> >>> 1) I'm not totally familiar with this type of mailing list (more used to >>> google groups) If I reply normally from my gmail as I'm doing here, does >>> my reply go to everyone in the list (and is that okay?) or just to the >>> people that replied to my original question. >>> >>> 2) Does everyone here run their computer 24:7? I'm thinking of getting >>> one of those plug computers to run an ongoing instance of remind and also >>> btsync. Is that a good idea or no? (I'm nervous of getting into the >>> world >>> of "servers", i.e. computers with no gui) >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Brian Carter <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I use todo.txt in combination with Remind. When something is coming due >>>> in >>>> Remind (for me I just use 'due tomorrow' as the determiner) a Cron job >>>> adds >>>> that as an (A) todo in my todo.txt file. Then I have another script that >>>> pushes my todo list every day to my phone so I can see easily check if >>>> anything is due in the next two days. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 26 May 2014 09:21, Ruthard Baudach <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> > >== Auszüge aus der Nachricht von Dave Parker vom 2014-05-22 01:00: >>>> > > I am starting to use a file based todo system (one directory holding >>>> text >>>> > > files which are the "todos") and I had the idea that maybe I could >>>> just >>>> > > include that directory and have some sort of rem statement within >>>> the >>>> > file >>>> > > that would run the file itself (i.e. just open the text file) when >>>> the >>>> > > date/time came up. >>>> > > >>>> > > Is this possible? >>>> > >>>> > depends on what you mean... >>>> > >>>> > Idea 1) >>>> > remind does not know about extensions. If the file contains valid >>>> > reminder input, it may have every extension you like. >>>> > Thus: >>>> > >>>> > include mytextfile.txt >>>> > >>>> > works perfectly well, as long as mytextfile.txt contains reminder >>>> > commands >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Idea 2) >>>> > to open a file, use the RUN command: >>>> > >>>> > 2000-01-01 AT 01:01 RUN my-favorite-editor-or-pager >>>> > /path/to/mytextfile.txt >>>> > >>>> > Idea 3) >>>> > remind is IMHO not suited to manage todos -- there is no easy method >>>> > to manage deadlines, priorities, contexts and projects. >>>> > >>>> > Had a look on todo.sh by Gina Trapani (todotxt.com) >>>> > >>>> > I would love to create a interface for remind and todo.sh, just >>>> didn't >>>> > have the opportunity. >>>> > >>>> > Yours, >>>> > >>>> > Ruthard >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > Remind-fans mailing list >>>> > [email protected] >>>> > http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans >>>> > Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind >>>> > >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Brian Carter (née Johnson) >>>> e. 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