Sophisticated Unix console program for dealing with reminders and dates. Uses a simple text file of reminder definitions, that can scale to very sophisticated calculations for determining dates of reminders. Includes support for daemon mode and time-based events (scheduling).

I use remind for my tickler file, along with programs like wyrd for my todo lists, and for reminders of anniversaries of birthdays, deaths, and other notable events.

For Mac OS X, I use the MacPorts port of remind.

Resources

• Original author David F. Skoll’s article from Linux Journal introducing the remind system.
• I was introduced to remind by Mike Harris’s article on 43Folders
• The Remind FAQ on the 43Folders wiki has some great information
• Remind’s official home page.

Front ends

• Wyrd (freshmeat) is a curses front-end to remind in the style of mutt, which gives it instant likability in my book.
• wxRemind is a Python-based GUI
• The default distribution of remind ships with tkRemind, a TCL/TK front end.
• I use Nick Vargish’s dashboard widget for Mac OS X as an almanac. While the official page is gone, there’s still a link to it at softpedia

Notes

This is the command line I use to produce monthly printable calendars:

rem -p | rem2ps -l -e -fthd BlueHighway -fes MyriadPro-Regular -st 36 -sh 9 -sd 12 -se 6 > cal.ps && open cal.ps