Hey, y'all. I'm a Remind noob, and I'm sort of reeling at the possibilities of this thing. I have a few questions.
First, I have a conference call that takes place at 9:00am the second, third and fourth Saturdays of every month. Right now, I'm doing it the chump way: REM Sat 8 AT 9:00 MSG Call %1 % REM Sat 15 AT 9:00 MSG Call %1 % REM Sat 22 AT 9:00 MSG Call %1 % I've tried: REM Sat 1 --21 *7 AT 9:00 MSG Call %1 % by which I mean, back up 21 days from the first Saturday, then repeat every 7. I KNEW this would fail in months with five Saturdays, but I didn't expect it to give me a "must have a full date specification to do repeat function" error. Any thoughts at how to more concisely express that date rule? I wish I could do "Sat 8, 15, 22" all on one line, but that's a syntax error. Second, I want a MSG on those events that tells me, on the appropriate Fridays, that I have that call tomorrow, but doesn't bug me about hours and minutes until it IS tomorrow. I don't have any clue how to go about setting that up. And I'd really like it to NOT notify me about it AFTER the event. Or actually, what would be the very most useful is if it would quit notifying me about these timed events one hour after they start. I think we're into the scripting functions now--and I write Perl for a living, so I'm not afraid of (sometimes noisy-looking) code, just unfamiliar with how Remind thinks. Third, I'm using this on a Mac, and I have geektools showing me the output of 'rem -q' on my desktop, refreshing every few seconds. That's very nice. I'd also like it emit growl notifications maybe every five minutes for the fifteen minutes before this event. I'm considering setting up a second .reminders file with "RUN growl'Call %1' %" in it, and different time rules for notifiations, but I hate that much duplication. Any thoughts about how best to accomplish this, preferably all in one line? Thanks! Remind is awesome--and now I'm just working to harness a little of its awesomeness! --Dan
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