Re: [ubuntu-uk] reminder tool
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:43:27 +0100, doug livesey wrote: > Hi -- can anyone recommend a handy little reminder tool for Ubuntu? Just > something I can quickly & easily set reminders in that will pop up & > annoy me until I deal with them. Take a look at "remind" in Synaptic. It is extremely powerful. You'll need to learn it but it shouldn't be very difficult. In case you do not want to dill with "remind" and prefer a GUI tool, take a look here http://www.alarm-clock.pl. The last is the best GNOME alarm GUI app known to me today. It is also in quite active development (but by one person if I'm not wrong). Pay attention - there are 2 version of it. One is written in Python another is a complete re-write in C and thus is supposed to be better but it is still in beta. An Ubuntu deb package exist for the Python version (the link is provided on the author's site). The C version you'll have to install from the source (not a big deal). -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] reminder tool
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:43 AM, doug livesey wrote: > Hi -- can anyone recommend a handy little reminder tool for Ubuntu? > Just something I can quickly & easily set reminders in that will pop up & > annoy me until I deal with them. > Cheers, >Doug. > > I'm extremely fond of Osmo. It's a GTK personal organiser, and it's at once extremely lightweight, quite featureful and on the whole has organised my first year of Sixth Form better than I could have managed any other way, I'm quite sure. Daniel -- Humanity is where the rising ape meets the falling angel. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] reminder tool
2009/6/11 doug livesey : > Cheers for that -- yeah, I think it would be overkill in my case, as I'm > happy using GMail. > I was hoping there would be something like there is in OSX that would run on > its own. > I've used KAlarm in the past, even though I was running GNOME as my desktop. Works quite nicely, in the repositories, job done! Cofion, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] reminder tool
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 07:43:27AM +0100, doug livesey wrote: > Hi -- can anyone recommend a handy little reminder tool for Ubuntu? > Just something I can quickly & easily set reminders in that will pop up & > annoy me until I deal with them. > Cheers, >Doug. I don't know of anything that exists already, but it shouldn't be too hard to write. 'at' can trigger events at a certain time (either absolute or in some way relative to the current time) and libnotify (possibly via notify-send) or zenity could do the annoying you part. A little bit of scripting/programming could put an interface on that (using zenity --entry to ask for a message and when to show it, or getting more complicated and making you're own GUI). If you don't find anything that suites, and want to go down the "rolling your own" route, I'd be happy to help. Robert Robert McWilliamr...@allmail.net www.ormiret.com Teamwork: harmless snowflakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] reminder tool
Sounds like something you would find in gdesklets, the osx style widget thing. On 6/11/09, Eddie Armstrong wrote: > doug livesey wrote: >> Hi -- can anyone recommend a handy little reminder tool for Ubuntu? >> Just something I can quickly & easily set reminders in that will pop >> up & annoy me until I deal with them. >> Cheers, >>Doug. > What about reminderfox - a firefox add-on > Eddie > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] reminder tool
doug livesey wrote: > Hi -- can anyone recommend a handy little reminder tool for Ubuntu? > Just something I can quickly & easily set reminders in that will pop > up & annoy me until I deal with them. > Cheers, >Doug. What about reminderfox - a firefox add-on Eddie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] reminder tool
doug livesey wrote: > Cheers for that -- yeah, I think it would be overkill in my case, as > I'm happy using GMail. > I was hoping there would be something like there is in OSX that would > run on its own. Not sure if this might do the job? http://lukewarmtapioca.com/2006/12/08/google-calendar-meet-ubuntu/ Looks like it accepts a Google calender as URL, not sure if it just notifies of events or what but it's installed on the desktop by default so may be worth a try. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] reminder tool
Cheers for that -- yeah, I think it would be overkill in my case, as I'm happy using GMail. I was hoping there would be something like there is in OSX that would run on its own. 2009/6/11 Rob Beard > doug livesey wrote: > > Hi -- can anyone recommend a handy little reminder tool for Ubuntu? > > Just something I can quickly & easily set reminders in that will pop > > up & annoy me until I deal with them. > > Cheers, > >Doug. > I believe that Evolution has this feature in the calendar. Possibly a > bit overkill for what you want but it would probably do the job. > > Rob > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] reminder tool
doug livesey wrote: > Hi -- can anyone recommend a handy little reminder tool for Ubuntu? > Just something I can quickly & easily set reminders in that will pop > up & annoy me until I deal with them. > Cheers, >Doug. I believe that Evolution has this feature in the calendar. Possibly a bit overkill for what you want but it would probably do the job. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
