On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:00:06 +0000 James Cook via Remind-fans <[email protected]> wrote:
> -- I am more > interested in a calendar that I can consult to see whether I'm free > at a particular time, and may record some useful information, like > the address of a hotel I'll be staying at. That can be done with Remind, though storing a *lot* of information in a REM line can be a bit messy/unwieldy. > My events often span multiple days (e.g. a hotel stay) and I am not > sure remind supports those well. It supports them for some definition of "well". Your options are basically: REM 2023-01-23 THROUGH 2023-01-27 MSG At hotel or REM 2023-01-23 AT 00:00 DURATION 120:00 MSG At hotel which look similar on a calendar but mean slightly different things. > - I really like the idea of storing my calendar as a simple text file; I like that too. > - I'm curious to try out remind's expressive language and see if it's > useful to me; That's the killer feature for me, obviously. :) Writing my reminder for garbage-collection day *once* and knowing that it will always be correct is really nice. > - it looks like there's a nice ecosystem of lightweight tools, > e.g. user interfaces. Yes. I use TkRemind, but there are curses-based ones too. One thing Remind is *not* good at is obtaining a list of busy/free times for multiple people and figuring out a common time when they're all free. I've been mulling this over for years now and may eventually get around do doing something about it. Regards, Dianne. _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] https://dianne.skoll.ca/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
