On Saturday, August 15, 2020 07:30:13 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
> Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{
> [just sent a 'mea culpa' email.]
> Is there a better tool than "cron"?Yes, several, but I'll bet you don't want to use either. Nevertheless, I'll mention them for posterity. * Google calendar (I avoid putting things on that I wouldn't want to be discovered "publicly", but I think there are some options to keep things private, plus you have to log in to use it at all. It sends me reminder emails, and althouigh I have a standard, you can set it up to do various things, like send reminders n months, days, or hours before an event, and repeat events on various schedules (like yearly, monthly (iirc), weekly (on a specific day, probably more. I have trouble setting up things like for the nth Thursday of a month (iirc -- i know I have trouble with one, forget which it is). You can also share calendars or specific events (only) with other users. (I suspect that other similar services provide calendars.) * KDE (and I sure many other desktops) has a calendar application -- I tried it once a long time ago, I forget all the reasons I preferred google, and maybe some of those have changed.
