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Dianne Skoll
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Dianne Skoll's personal blog at dianne.skoll.ca covers ai, programming and writing. Since 2018, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Remind – a sophisticated calendar and alarm program”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this site for Remind, a long-used calendar and alarm program whose project page and slides serve as its intro. Commenters name it as a daily-driver scheduling tool and cite it often.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Remind – a sophisticated calendar and alarm program12 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2018-11-22
What Hacker News says?
remind: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ alpine: https://repo.or.cz/alpine.git mg: https://github.com/hboetes/mg/
Comment linking /projects/remind/
on “Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?”Submitted Remind – a sophisticated calendar and alarm program as a story · 78 points
HN discussionHave you looked into remind[0] while working on this? There might be value in checking that out. Personally I haven't used it in years, but the latest release is from this year so it seems active. ---- [0] https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
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on “Calendar.txt”Submitted Remind: A sophisticated calendar and alarm program as a story · 55 points
HN discussionpeople discussing various other scheduling things - there is also 'remind': https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ which is very flexible, unfortunately it hasn't really made it into the 'canon'
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on “A quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions”Submitted The Generative AI Industry Is Fraudulent, Immoral and Dangerous as a story · 13 points
HN discussion"Remind" calendar has been a daily driver for me for the better part of a decade, you might find some inspiration there? I could see these two things working well together? https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
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on “Show HN: I built an open source web calendar inspired by the Google calendar”Submitted For Residents of Jurisdictions with Age Verification Laws as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRemind - https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
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on “Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?”Interesting. I was expecting something similar to my daily driver, which is Remind - https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ I think I still prefer Remind's approach for now; it keeps the ability to have a plaintext viewable thing, but Remind also appears more scriptable and exportable; e.g. I make mine both give me reminders in my Terminal, and I can also make it print out a regular "human-ready" calendar.
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on “Plain Text Calendar”- xn · 2024-10-24
I use remind[1] with wyrd. I have a wyrd template to create reminders that will keep moving to the next (week)day, e.g. REM Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri SCANFROM [float(2024,10,21)] AT 08:45 MSG %"Complete that thing%"% where float is: FSET float(y,m,d) trigger(MAX(realtoday(), date(y,m,d))) When I finish it, I delete it, or replace the floating date with the actual date if I want to keep track of when I completed it. https:…
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on “Show HN: I built a task manager that separates "do" and "due" dates” The best intro/wtf link is the slides: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-oclu... tldr: REM Dec 25 MSG It's Christmas! (...and then a bunch of other fanciness inclusive of being able to put "MSG Your [$MATH] Birthday is this [$MATHDAY]!")
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on “Remind: A sophisticated calendar and alarm program”The "remind" program has a pretty well-developed DSL to represent dates and recurring schedules, with backends to produce postscript/html/etc calendars. https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ It's available already-packaged in most mainstream distros I know of.
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on “Ask HN: Is there a language to represent schedules and produce calendars?”Own domains is the real deal. My preffered model is tarball releases with checksums, or better yet, with signatures (like remind[0] or msmtp[1]). Such pages are trivial to host properly and loads quickly. [0]: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ [1]: https://marlam.de/msmtp/download/
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on “Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo”Hey I'm curious on how your reminder app works and to what effects, if you're willing to share. I'm on iteration 3 already of my reminder app, also vibe coded, and it helps me a lot. My first one was inspired on Remind [0]. 0: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
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on “C++: The Documentary Released Today”Thanks for reply and for have shared your project first! > I think we can refresh some the things that make it powerful with a fresh coat of paint, to make it more accessible to a “younger generation.” That's what scare me, again in general: I see regular small complaint of modern absurdity, posts like: - https://tiramisu.bearblog.dev/your-desktop-is-not-a-destinat... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838697…
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on “Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform”