On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:08:52 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I have been using the "remind" program for years. It takes
input in text
files and can generate task lists, text calendars for email, or HTML
calendars to your web size. It handles things like "first tuesday after
the first monday", the bizarre rules about when US holidays have been
moved to make three day weekend and remove historical significance, and
the like.
Also does differences, so you can print not only the birthday of kids
but their age this year, anniversaries, last friday in the quarter,
Easter, whatever. And you can generate documentation or actually execute
programs, which is also handy.
Very nice indeed.
Also dayplanner may be worth a try. Not as sophisticated as remind (can't
skip over holidays, doesn't seem to be able to take an action upon an
event, etc.) but runs as a daemon, so it reduces desktop clutter.