[lug] Looking for a good simple reminder program

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 21:43:52 -0700
Simos wrote:

> > Correction: it's called "remind"
> > https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3529
> 
> I also spent quire a bit of time looking for the right reminder utility,
> tried a few of them, and ended up with remind as well. There's probably
> a few ways you can get remind to pop up reminder windows and probably
> even a tray icon with something like kdocker, but what I ended up doing
> is run a script through anacron every 24 hours which checks remind for
> events and sends me an email reminder for each event on that day. This
> way it's in my inbox so I don't just click the reminder away and end up
> forgetting about it.

After reading the remind manpage, I think I'm going to give it a try. I
don't know that kdocker is the best solution for getting a tray
indicator, but maybe. I'm thinking about tossing together a quickie
Python script, using this example:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6389580/quick-and-easy-trayicon-with-python

Other suggestions for "really simple" Python systray indicator would be
welcome.

As near as I can tell, my needs would be met simply by having the Python
script notice whether remind has any output, and change the tray icon
accordingly. Further enhancement could be a popup window with the remind
output from that latest run.