Do you often forget your Calendar events?
MIT License
Do you often miss your calendar events? Because you got distract? 1 minute late? Forgot to see the System notification?
This repository provides a small script which will definitely remind you of your events!
This script contains a few arguments that you can use to customize it. The following is the usage of the script
remind-me-please.sh
-d Enables Debug Mode | Default=FALSE
-t 1|2|3|... The amount of minutes the script should consider as a matching time.
Eg.: if you set it to m, if the event is at 16:00 and your current time is 15:58,
then it will announce that the event is coming when it is 15:59.
In other words this is how many minutes before the event starts that you want to be notified.
Default=1
-s How fast the voice should speak the reminder message | Default=150
-v Which Voice model should be used.
You can get a full list of voices by running `say -v "?"`
Default="Samantha"
-e Exclude some calendars. Give the Calendars name. | Default=""
This script was originally designed taking macOS
in place because of the following dependencies
say
command (not to be mistaken with GNU Say)date
command operates differentlyThe remind-me-please.sh
is a script made purely with Bash which requires the iCalBuddy package.
You can easily install it by running
brew install ical-buddy
Note.: The script executes in a while
loop forever. It will execute the contents of the script every 1 minute. You can simply exit the script with Ctrl + C
An easy way of making the Script to start on Boot it by running Automator. You can follow this tutorial.
Note.: Crontabs are not supported.
You need to give proper execution permissions to the script. Try running:
chmod a+x remind-me-please.sh
iCalBuddy
requires it for reading your calendar.Note.: It will by default read data from all your Calendars.