On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:14:24PM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote: > Martin Walk wrote: > > > how do you keep your .reminders file clean: > > how do you remove expired one-time reminders from the file? > > is there a mechanism for that in remind or do you have to do it manually? > > You have to do it manually. Ancient (2.x) versions of Remind had an > option to purge expired reminders. However, with 3.x and Remind's > expression mechanism, there is in general no way for Remind to know > for sure that a reminder has expired and will never reappear. > > I'm trying to figure out a nice way to do this... any ideas? >
I keep reminders in a variety of files by subject, *if* they are recurring reminders. However, *one-time* reminders go in a one-time reminder file, and can be purged as needed. Most events I have are recurring, so the one-time file is smaller by far. Paul -- Paul M. Foster _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans
