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  Does Debian have a "nag" tool? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-08-15 13:40 +0200
    Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-08-15 14:00 +0200
      THANK YOU!!!! -Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-08-15 14:40 +0200
      Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool? Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2020-08-23 05:20 +0200
    Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-08-15 14:20 +0200
    Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2020-08-15 14:20 +0200
    Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-08-15 14:50 +0200
      Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool? l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-08-15 15:30 +0200
    Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-08-15 14:50 +0200
    Thanks to all -- Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-08-15 15:50 +0200
      Re: Thanks to all -- Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool? Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2020-08-15 17:30 +0200
    Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool? Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2020-08-15 16:20 +0200
      Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2020-08-15 16:40 +0200

#226201 — Does Debian have a "nag" tool?

Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
[just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
Is there a better tool than "cron"?

Just looked at its manpage.
I'm looking for something slightly different.

Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on a 
specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken a 
specific action.

As:
  1. I've known her for > 30 years.
  2. I'm a _senior_ citizen.
  3. She is a decade younger.
I am about to receive just retribution.
   [She'll claim I'm forgiven due to senility.]

Wish to prevent such a response next year ;/

TIA

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#226203

On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 06:30:13 -0500
Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:

> Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> Is there a better tool than "cron"?
> 
> Just looked at its manpage.
> I'm looking for something slightly different.
> 
> Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on
> a specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken
> a specific action.
> 
> As:
>   1. I've known her for > 30 years.
>   2. I'm a _senior_ citizen.
>   3. She is a decade younger.
> I am about to receive just retribution.
>    [She'll claim I'm forgiven due to senility.]
> 
> Wish to prevent such a response next year ;/
> 
> TIA
> 
> 

Remind?

-- 
Joe

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#226206 — THANK YOU!!!! -Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?

On 08/15/2020 06:53 AM, Joe wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 06:30:13 -0500
> Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> 
>> Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
>> [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
>> Is there a better tool than "cron"?
>>
>> Just looked at its manpage.
>> I'm looking for something slightly different.
>>
>> Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on
>> a specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken
>> a specific action.
>>
>> As:
>>    1. I've known her for > 30 years.
>>    2. I'm a _senior_ citizen.
>>    3. She is a decade younger.
>> I am about to receive just retribution.
>>     [She'll claim I'm forgiven due to senility.]
>>
>> Wish to prevent such a response next year ;/
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
> 
> Remind?
> 

That's just what "doctor ordered".
Thank you!

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#226435

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I've been using Remind for years (maybe decades).  It can handle all kinds
of repeating reminders, not just annual dates (ie birthdays and
anniversaries).  Very versatile.  It is a command line program, but comes
with TkRemind (a GUI front end).  Best not to use the GUI for setting up
reminders, though.  It doesn't have the versatility of doing it manually.

Marc


On Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 4:53 AM Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 06:30:13 -0500
> Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>
> > Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> > [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> > Is there a better tool than "cron"?
> >
> > Just looked at its manpage.
> > I'm looking for something slightly different.
> >
> > Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on
> > a specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken
> > a specific action.
> >
> > As:
> >   1. I've known her for > 30 years.
> >   2. I'm a _senior_ citizen.
> >   3. She is a decade younger.
> > I am about to receive just retribution.
> >    [She'll claim I'm forgiven due to senility.]
> >
> > Wish to prevent such a response next year ;/
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
>
> Remind?
>
> --
> Joe
>
>

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#226204

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On Sb, 15 aug 20, 06:30:13, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> Is there a better tool than "cron"?
> 
> Just looked at its manpage.
> I'm looking for something slightly different.
> 
> Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on a
> specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken a
> specific action.

Some of the big e-mail clients (possibly also SeaMonkey) have calendar 
modules / add-ons / etc. that typically also have some reminder 
function.

Kind regards,
Andrei
-- 
http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

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#226205

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On Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 7:30 AM Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:

> Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> Is there a better tool than "cron"?
>
> Just looked at its manpage.
> I'm looking for something slightly different.
>
> Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on a
> specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken a
> specific action.
>
> As:
>   1. I've known her for > 30 years.
>   2. I'm a _senior_ citizen.
>   3. She is a decade younger.
> I am about to receive just retribution.
>    [She'll claim I'm forgiven due to senility.]
>
> Wish to prevent such a response next year ;/
>
> TIA
>

Actually, normal Calendar Entries (i.e. Google Calendar) does a pretty good
job of reminding me.  It's Android, but I saw some Open Source Linux
Calendars.  You could have them trigger a Musical Piece, for example.

Kenneth Parker

>

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#226207

On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 06:30:13 -0500
Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:

> Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> Is there a better tool than "cron"?

Emacs' diary mode.

Nextcloud calendar

XFCE's Orage.

-- 
Does anybody read signatures any more?

https://charlescurley.com
https://charlescurley.com/blog/

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#226209

Hi,

15 août 2020 à 14:24 de charlescurley@charlescurley.com:

> XFCE's Orage.
>
For the specific purpose of birthdays, I find gbirthday really straightforward and effective.
I  haven't succeeded in showing the last recent birthdays though... 

Best regards,
l0f4r0

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#226208

On Saturday, August 15, 2020 07:30:13 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
> Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> Is there a better tool than "cron"?

Yes, several, but I'll bet you don't want to use either.  Nevertheless, I'll 
mention them for posterity. 

   * Google calendar (I avoid putting things on that I wouldn't want to be 
discovered "publicly", but I think there are some options to keep things 
private, plus you have to log in to use it at all.  It sends me reminder 
emails, and althouigh I have a standard, you can set it up to do various 
things, like send reminders n months, days, or hours before an event, and 
repeat events on various schedules (like yearly, monthly (iirc), weekly (on a 
specific day, probably more.  I have trouble setting up things like for the nth 
Thursday of a month (iirc -- i know I have trouble with one, forget which it 
is).

You can also share calendars or specific events (only) with other users.


(I suspect that other similar services provide calendars.)

   * KDE (and I sure many other desktops) has a calendar application -- I 
tried it once a long time ago, I forget all the reasons I preferred google, 
and maybe some of those have changed.

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#226210 — Thanks to all -- Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?

"remind" is the appropriate tool.
It does NOT rely on anything other than computer being turned on.
With appropriate script it can "nag" me  ;}
q.v.
https://manpages.debian.org/buster/remind/remind.1.en.html
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/

On 08/15/2020 06:30 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> Is there a better tool than "cron"?
> 
> Just looked at its manpage.
> I'm looking for something slightly different.
> 
> Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on a 
> specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken a 
> specific action.
> 
> As:
>   1. I've known her for > 30 years.
>   2. I'm a _senior_ citizen.
>   3. She is a decade younger.
> I am about to receive just retribution.
>    [She'll claim I'm forgiven due to senility.]
> 
> Wish to prevent such a response next year ;/
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> 
> 

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#226213 — Re: Thanks to all -- Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?

On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 08:46:18AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:

> "remind" is the appropriate tool.
> It does NOT rely on anything other than computer being turned on.
> With appropriate script it can "nag" me  ;}
> q.v.
> https://manpages.debian.org/buster/remind/remind.1.en.html
> https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/

FWIW, I run remind as a personal cron job every day, and have it email
me the results of today's reminders. Incredibly useful. I also wrote a
web front end for it which looks a lot nicer than tkremind. It can't
update the reminders, but it does show them in a nice calendar format on
a web page.

Paul


-- 
Paul M. Foster
http://noferblatz.com
http://quillandmouse.com

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#226211

try Thunderbird Calendar (Lightning):
there are probably better tools, but I have been using it for ages.
For reminders you can use various categories to show graphically, popups 
if you like, and it is searchable for Historical uses.
I also have oldtimers disease, this helps.

On 8/15/20 4:30 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> Is there a better tool than "cron"?
>
> Just looked at its manpage.
> I'm looking for something slightly different.
>
> Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on 
> a specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken 
> a specific action.
>
> As:
>  1. I've known her for > 30 years.
>  2. I'm a _senior_ citizen.
>  3. She is a decade younger.
> I am about to receive just retribution.
>   [She'll claim I'm forgiven due to senility.]
>
> Wish to prevent such a response next year ;/
>
> TIA
>
>
>

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#226212

On Sat, 15 Aug 2020, Peter Ehlert wrote:

> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 10:02:42
> From: Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?
> Resent-Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 14:18:08 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> try Thunderbird Calendar (Lightning):
> there are probably better tools, but I have been using it for ages.
> For reminders you can use various categories to show graphically, popups if
> you like, and it is searchable for Historical uses.
> I also have oldtimers disease, this helps.
>
> On 8/15/20 4:30 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> > [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> > Is there a better tool than "cron"?
> >
> > Just looked at its manpage.
> > I'm looking for something slightly different.
> >
> > Independent of when I turn on or first do something after midnight on a
> > specific date I want a reminder to be displayed unless I have taken a
> > specific action.
> >
> > As:
> >  1. I've known her for > 30 years.
> >  2. I'm a _senior_ citizen.
> >  3. She is a decade younger.
> > I am about to receive just retribution.
> >   [She'll claim I'm forgiven due to senility.]
> >
> > Wish to prevent such a response next year ;/
> >
> > TIA
> >
Debian has a calendar package but it's a cli package ported from BSD and
you need to populate ~/.calendar with personal dates and events for it to
work for you.

> > > >
>
>
>

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