From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Remind functionality? Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:36:55 +0100 Message-ID: <3DC0ACEE-62AB-47FE-A680-9227E3EDCB06@uva.nl> References: <20090125163605.GA20825@Edwards.local> <68633AE9-8E49-46A8-962C-163E26AD421D@uva.nl> <20090125233219.GA2288@Edwards.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRVPB-000058-RZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:37:49 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRVP9-0008Uk-0s for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:37:48 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36413 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRVP8-0008Ud-Qm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:37:46 -0500 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:52962) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRVP5-0008VR-Ho for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:37:44 -0500 Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.78.147]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRJEg-0002xT-V0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:38:11 -0500 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so713539eyg.24 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:36:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090125233219.GA2288@Edwards.local> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Nicholas S-A Cc: Org Mode List On Jan 26, 2009, at 12:32 AM, Nicholas S-A wrote: > Hi, > > * Carsten Dominik [2009-01-25 22:17:16 > +0100]: > >> It is unlikely that this can be make faster in a significant way. >> Why is it a problem???? Even if it takes 10 seconds? >> Ah, I see, you do this in every new shell?????? This sounds >> unnecessary, to say the least. >> Maybe you have to explain better what exactly your are doing.... > > So, the way I currently use remind is run it as "remind ~/.remind" > in my > .bash_profile. It reminds me of deadlines and events at any login > shell, > so that I don't forget about them (and also so they are fast to > access). > This works well, as it is quick to load and doesn't contribute > significantly to the login time at e.g. a Terminal window or SSH > connection. The problem comes because I now use org-mode agenda to > schedule everything, so I have to enter upcoming events twice -- > once in > my agenda files, and once in ~/.remind. As such, I thought I could > improve my workflow by just printing the emacs agenda instead of > running > remind -- but this is slow. I also tried with emacsclient, but that > didn't improve it any. A work-around would be to use a cronjob to dump the the agenda output to a file, maybe once a minute or even once every hour, and then to cat this file into your shells. - Carsten