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-Calendars and other reminder systems
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-Some things in life have to happen at particular times. For these,
-the calendar is the perfect tool. Any kind of calendar will work,
-as long as you use it diligently for this kind of thing: paper
-or digital, pocket or wall, or even just a text file with dates.
-
-Calendar software has some features that make them particularly useful
-for many people: group calendars, ease of separation between personal
-and work calendars, etc.
-
-You already know how to use a calendar for its basic tasks, so we
-won't go into that.
-
-You can use calendars as an inbox as well. For example, if you need
-to start working on a project in September, but don't need to worry
-about it before that, then adding a reminder about the project on
-September 1 will work fine, but only if you treat the calendar
-as an inbox. If you use a digital calendar, you can have one for
-these inbox items in particular.
-
-Automatic nagging systems
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-
-Another kind of thing is stuff that needs to happen regularly. For
-some of these, digital calendars are still the tool of choice: you 
-could add a bi-monthly reminder to get a haircut to your calendar,
-for example. If you get the timing right, your calendar will remind
-you just before your partner does, and you'll both be saved an
-unnecessary discussion.
-
-Calendar reminders may also be replaced or augmented by cron jobs,
-which run, for example, on the Monday before the second Thursday
-of each month, and tell you to send out an invitation to the
-monthly meeting, which happens on the second Thursday each month.
-Whether you use an actual calendar, or a cron job, is your choice,
-of course: use the tools that suit you best.
-
-Cron jobs have the advantage over calendars that they can be
-conditional: a cron job could, for example, see if you've already
-sent out the invitation, and not remind you if you have.
-
-Some stuff does not fit so easily with calendars. For example,
-suppose you want to cut your nails when they get too long, but you
-keep getting distracted by your computer so that it may take you a
-month to notice that it's time to cut them. And when you do, it's
-because you break a nail, which is a bit painful. After some experimentation
-you decide that twelve days after the previous time is a good time to
-cut your nails. Having your computer remind you about it makes it
-much more likely that you'll do it when it's time. However, having
-your calendar remind you every twelve days may not work so well,
-because you might be travelling on that 12th day, and the annoying
-flight security theater made it impossible to take your nail cutter
-with you. (This is not a hypothetical example.)
-
-A better solution would remind you twelve days after
-the previous time you actually cut the nails, not after the previous
-reminder. I have a program called "nagger" which does exactly that,
-but it is not suitable for others to use (unless you dig editing
-`procmailrc` files, and probably not even then). The nagger remembers
-when you last did something, and after the specified time, it
-starts nagging you every day until you tell it you've done it again.
-