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# Remind

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Remind is a sophisticated calendar and alarm program.

## Installation

Install the remind package.

## Configuration

After installation, the user can define reminders in remind script files (.rem). A good place for these files could be `~/.reminders` or `~/.config/remind`.

Here are some example reminders that could be in the remind script:

    ~/.config/remind/reminders.rem

    REM Jan 1 MSG Remind every year on new years day
    REM January 1 2015 MSG Remind only on new years day 2015
    REM Sunday 2 MSG Remind every second Sunday
    REM March Monday 1 --7 MSG remind on the last Monday of February
    REM December 25 +30 MSG Christmas

The last particular day of a month is given by subtracting 7 days from the first day of the next month. The `+` symbol tells remind to start reminding that number of days ahead.

See also remind(1) man page for detailed information about configuring remind.

### Include

A reminder script can also include any number of external scripts. For example, a user might want to have a separate file for birthday reminders and a separate file for holidays. This can be done like so:

    include ~/.config/remind/birthdays.rem
    include ~/.config/remind/holidays.rem

## Usage

The simplest thing one can do with remind, is to check for reminders. Do this by passing a reminder file to remind:

    remind ~/.config/remind/reminders.rem

This will output a list of reminders that it is scheduled to tell the user about.

To output a text based calendar, use the `-c` option:

    remind -c1 ~/.config/remind/reminders.rem

This will output a text calendar for the current month. To print months in advance, replace `1` with the number of months to print.

### Postscript/pdf calendars

It is also possible to create calendars in a postscript format.

    remind -c2 -p ~/.config/remind/reminders.rem | rem2ps > calendar.ps

The `-p` option makes remind print output suitable for rem2ps. rem2ps by default prints the output to standard output, so it must be redirected to a file so it can be opened by a program like evince.

Postscript files can be converted with `ps2pdf`. Ps2pdf is provided by ghostscript which is available in the official repositories.

## See also

- remind(1) man page
- Remind wiki index

Category:

- Applications