Re: [Orgmode] Remind functionality?

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jan 26, 2009, at 12:32 AM, Nicholas S-A wrote:

> Hi,
>
> * Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> [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