Remind: A sophisticated calendar and alarm program

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Remind Remind is a sophisticated calendar and alarm program. It includes the following features: A sophisticated scripting language and intelligent handling of exceptions and holidays. Plain-text, PDF, PostScript and HTML output. Timed reminders and pop-up alarms. A friendly graphical front-end for people who don't want to learn the scripting language. Facilities for both the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars. Support for 12 different languages. License Remind is Free Software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 Download Remind The current version of remind is 06.02.01 released on 2025-11-10. Verify the Signature To verify the GPG signature, run: gpg --verify remind-06.02.01.tar.gz.sig You will need to have my public key in your GnuPG keyring. Donations You can donate to me on Liberapay if you wish. This is entirely optional and not necessary to use Remind, but I very much appreciate the donations I do receive. Screenshots Everybody loves screenshots. Here you go. De-Googling your Calendar Remind is an integral part of my effort to avoid storing sensitive data on servers I don't control. Here is an article about how I de-Googled my Contacts and Calendar. Intro Video I made a (longish) Introduction to Remind video on YouTube. Best viewed in full-screen mode at 1920x1080 resolution. VIDEO Install Remind What the heck do you do with a tar.gz file? Remind is designed to run on UNIX and Linux. As such, it's distributed as source code that you need to compile. If you are on a Linux or UNIX system, the build process is the usual: tar xfz remind-06.02.01.tar.gz && cd remind-06.02.01 && ./configure && make && make test && sudo make install Entirely painless. But do read the README file for other ways to build. Use Remind Like all good UNIX programs, Remind comes with a man page. To read the Remind manual, type this command: man remind Of course, the man remind command will only work once you've actually installed Remind! And please be aware th...

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