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

From Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Thanks to all -- Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?
Date 2020-08-15 17:30 +0200
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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


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Paul M. Foster
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http://quillandmouse.com

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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

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