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include /Users/haris/Documents/MyGTD/gtdalt.reminders

rep:week

rep:tue,wednesday

rep:10

rep:tue,10,week

REM June 7 2006 *30 %

REM June 7 2006 *30 MSG The action's text here. %

16 Comments »

1. Alan said,

   July 10, 2006 at 6:09 pm

   GTDAlt just acquired support for the wonderful Remind program

   You say that as if it went out and picked it up on its own

2. Mark Eli Kalderon said,

   July 14, 2006 at 2:10 pm

   For some reason the rep: command is not working for me (I have updated to revision 4212). Checking the scope I get:

   text.gtdalt
   meta.project.begin.gtdalt
   meat.action.gtdalt
   constant.action.title.gtdalt

   I assume the syntax for rep: is similar to due: and at:

   Thanks!

3. Haris said,

   July 14, 2006 at 6:57 pm

   Hi Mark,

   maybe I wasn’t very clear about the rep command. First of all, its syntax is not like the due: command. In particular, there should be no brackets, and it is meant for repeating things, so it doesn’t even accept a regular date in the yyyy-mm-dd format.

   But most importantly, it has to be in a Note for the action, not in the action line itself.

4. Mark Eli Kalderon said,

   July 15, 2006 at 5:07 am

   But most importantly, it has to be in a Note for the action, not in the action line itself.

   That was the problem, thanks!

5. Oliver Hagmann said,

   July 16, 2006 at 3:13 am

   I hope it\’s not just me but it seems like the TM_GTD_REMINDER isn\’t recognised anymore in the latest revision (4246). I have it set to 7 but all actions have only +1 day in advance reminders in the gtdalt.reminders file. This used to work some revisions ago. And thanks for this great bundle!!

6. Haris said,

   July 16, 2006 at 8:05 am

   Hi Oliver,

   No I don’t think it’s just you. It somehow broke at some point, and then name of the variable being checked was YM_GTD_REMINDER instead for some reason. Should be fixed in 4262.

7. Oliver Hagmann said,

   July 18, 2006 at 1:31 am

   Just an idea: Would it be very difficult to add a Tooltip to get some visual feedback whenever I’m running the “Fill Remind Files” and the “Clean-up current file” etc. commands?

8. Haris said,

   July 18, 2006 at 7:15 am

   @Oliver,

   that should probably be not too difficult. What would you like the tooltip to say?

9. Oliver Hagmann said,

   July 18, 2006 at 1:40 pm

   Hm. Good question. Maybe: “You’re looking great!” or “Peace on earth!”? - No. Honestly something uplifting isn’t the badest idea in the context of GTD, me thinks. Something like “Cheers! All clear now.” for the Clean-up command would be nice. I currently can’t think of anything funny for the Fill remind files command though. Try to be funny in a non native language… Maybe someone else has an idea?

10. Haris said,

    July 18, 2006 at 3:11 pm

    Actually I can’t do it with the clean-up script, because it has to replace the current document, so it can’t show a tool-tip at the same time. But I added some message to the Fill remind files one, just acknowledging that it ran. It doesn’t really check to make sure the command did the right thing though.

11. Oliver Hagmann said,

    July 19, 2006 at 7:24 am

    Ok. Thanks! It doesn’t work perfectly yet, though. I get a tooltip, but it says:
    /bin/bash: line 2: puts: command not found

12. Haris said,

    July 19, 2006 at 8:07 am

    Ah, right! I was using Ruby commands while the script was a shell script. Should be fixed now.

13. John Weesk said,

    January 15, 2007 at 4:32 am

    This is great. The one thing I miss when using Remind with GTD, though, is that Remind doesn’t show overdue items. I customized my copy of fillremindfile.rb a little to have overdue items show up. Here is the bit of code I changed:

      when /due/
        delta = DateTime::now() - dateObj
        delta_int = delta.to_i
        if delta_int > 0 then
          if delta_int > 1 then
              reminderLines << "REM [trigger(realtoday())] PRIORITY 4999 MSG #{action.name.gsub(/%/,"")} #{delta_int} days ago.%"
            else
              reminderLines << "REM [trigger(realtoday())] PRIORITY 4999 MSG #{action.name.gsub(/%/,"")} yesterday.%"
          end
        else
          reminderLines << "REM #{dateObj.strftime('%B %d %Y')}"+
          (ENV['TM_GTD_REMINDER'].nil? ? " +1" : " +#{ENV['TM_GTD_REMINDER']}") + " MSG #{action.name.gsub(/%/,"")} %b.%"
        end
      end
    

14. Steve Goodman said,

    March 14, 2007 at 1:37 am

    Was wondering if you could be more exact on where you placed the new code in the Fillremindefile.rb?

    Would love that feature on my Remind list

15. Graham English said,

    May 27, 2007 at 9:29 pm

    This is awesome! I’ve been using Remind for a while and thought to myself, wouldn’t it be cool of GTDAlt worked with Remind. Then, as I was digging into the menu, there it was: Fill Remind Files.

    Works perfectly! Thank you.

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