REMIND

Remind is a full-featured calendar/alarm program. Copying policy is in the file "COPYRIGHT" included with the source; Remind is licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2.

Prerequisites:

Remind and Rem2PS

remind and rem2ps have no prerequisites beyond the standard C library and the standard math library. remind will make use of GNU Readline if you have it installed.

• On Debian-like systems, install GNU Readline as follows:

  apt install libreadline-dev

• On RPM-based systems, you need readline-devel

Rem2HTML and Rem2PDF

rem2html requires the JSON::MaybeXS Perl module and rem2pdf requires the JSON::MaybeXS, Pango and Cairo Perl modules.

• On Debian-like systems, these prerequisites may be installed with:

  apt install libjson-maybexs-perl libpango-perl libcairo-perl

• On RPM-based systems, you need perl-Pango, perl-Cairo and perl-JSON-MaybeXS

• On Gentoo, you need dev-perl/Pango, dev-perl/Cairo and dev-perl/JSON-MaybeXS.

• On Arch linux, you need pango-perl, cairo-perl and perl-json-maybexs

TkRemind

tkremind requires Tcl/Tk and the tcllib library.

• On Debian-like systems, install with:

  apt install tcl tk tcllib

• On RPM-based systems, you need tcl, tk and tcllib

• On Arch Linux, you need tk and tcllib. The latter is available at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tcllib

If the little arrows for "Previous Month" and "Next Month" do not display correctly in TkRemind, you may need to install the Noto Fonts. Install all of your distribution's Noto Font-related packages.

• On Debian-like systems, install with:

  apt install fonts-noto-core fonts-noto-color-emoji fonts-noto-extra fonts-noto-ui-core fonts-noto-ui-extra

Installation

Assuming you have a normal C development environment installed, Remind can be installed with the usual:

./configure && make && make test && sudo make install

You can edit custom.h to configure some aspects of Remind. Or, if you have Tcl/Tk installed, you can use the graphical build tool to edit custom.h on your behalf:

wish ./build.tk

Usage

Remind is a large and complex program. You can read the full manual page with:

man remind

after installation. However, the man page is long and detailed and is more of a reference than an introduction. You can get an overview with a slide deck I made a while back. There's also a (long) YouTube video that serves as an introduction to Remind.

A Note about AI

1. No part of Remind was written using AI of any type.
   
   I certify that all of the C, Perl and Tcl code in Remind was written by a human being. I certify that all code in .rem files other than ones under include/holidays was written by a human being. The code under include/holidays was derived from the Python "holidays" library and I have no direct knowledge of the provenance of that library, though I suspect it's entirely or almost entirely human-written.

2. No AI-generated patches or other sorts of contributions to Remind will be accepted.

3. Remind's source code may not be used to train an AI model, including an LLM model, unless all of the output of said model is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2. If you use any of Remind's source code to train your model, then anything that the model produces is a derived product of Remind and must be licensed under the same terms as Remind.

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Contact info: dianne@skoll.ca

Home page: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/