Indicator Remindor Lets You Set Up Reminders

Set up regular reminders to do things on Ubuntu, or set up an alarm for later today. Whether you want to remember to let your cat out of the swimming pool today around 3 or pick up the dog from his job every weekday at 6, the oddly-spelled Indicator Remindor (yep, with an “o”) can help you out by playing a sound, displaying a notification or even running any command.
 
                   Sure, you could use a schedule for pointers, but for many individuals that is overkill – they only need periodic pointers about certain factors. And besides, Remindor can do factors most schedules cannot, such as release any control you want whenever. This signal applet is incredibly simple to use and performs as promoted.












You can set an alarm for later today, which is simple – just enter a time. You can set an alarm for a future day by filling in the “Date” field: type something like “tomorrow“, “next Tuesday” or “August 27“; the software will figure out what it means (and if it can’t you’ll see a red circle with an “X” in the field).

You can even use this to set persistent pointers, eg. “every Tuesday”, “every 21″ or “every 1 month starting today“. Simply select the “Help” option if you get puzzled – it describes several illustrations.

If you are a fan of Ubuntu’s standard alert program (and you should be), you will be satisfied to know it’s reinforced. Convert the announcements on and you will see something.

Convert the “Notifications” change on for this to work. Of course, that might not be enough for you, so be sure to set up a audio as well. There are no involved appears to be, but you can choose any pc file on your pc.

You can keep notices, but that is hardly the most interesting function here. The most interesting function is probably…

…Commands!

Remindor becomes powerful once you realize it can launch commands. If you’re a command-savvy Linux user you know exactly what this means, but if not, just know that you can use this to launch any program at a set time. To do this you’ll need to know the program’s commands. Here is a quick rundown of the commands for apps you’ll probably recognize:

• firefox
• google-chrome
• vlc
• rhythmbox
• gedit

Even better, you can launch any program within certain parameters. For example: you could tell VLC to open a certain file at a certain time, just by using the command “vlc /path/to/your/freaking/file.mp3“.

Install Indicator Remindor

 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bhdouglass/indicator-remindor
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-remindor

The first adds the “indicator-remindor” PPA; the second updates your 
package list; the third installs the program. Alternatively you could 
use the (GUI) Y PPA, an easy-to-use PPA manager for Ubuntu.