Task Reminder/PopUP

[David Fletcher]

On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 10:38 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> On 18 March 2011 07:04, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a Desktop Application which will remind tasks/events. I do not have
> > the popup or reminder feature available in Tasque.
> 
> Reminderfox in Firefox or Thunderbird.
> 
> > I have also used Tomboy but somehow it does not highlight or pop up
> 
> Tomboy should be in Applications > Accessories
> 
> Colin
> 

Years ago when I was running 98 or XP I wrote my own. I re-wrote it for
KDE3. Couldn't be bothered to try to figure out how to get it to work
with gnome. It's now been re-written again to run on my server, which is
why I was asking a few weeks ago about how to get a C/C++ program to
locate a user's home directory.

It now gets run once per day as a cron task, uses the same file format
as the windows version did, and sends email when a reminder is due which
I can leave in my mail box until I've dealt with it.

I've not gone to the trouble of doing everything properly with a make
file, license etc. just for something for myself, but if anybody's
interested in having a play with it, you're welcome to email me off
list.

Dave