(Part of the Remind Like Water series)
The idea is to separate out the repeating/recurring tasks from the regular projects and actions (contained in a GTD program like iGTD or OmniFocus), and hook it up with a calendar system of some sort. Using remind and iCal, we can make that happen with a smidgen of sealing wax and bailing wire.
This shell script takes the output of the standard rem -q command and creates individual to do items in iCal from it. Pretty simple and barebones at the moment, but works. It will need to be in your path in the terminal and made executable. If you scoff at my mad script skills, feel free to offer alternative approaches — I’d love to hear them.
Like anything nowadays, the script may cause blindness or extreme rashes, so make backups before testing.
#!/bin/sh
# by Robert Daeley
# version 0.1 2007-06-07
# assumes existence of iCal calendar called "remind"
# run in your terminal with ./totodo.sh
REMINPUT=$(rem -q | sed '/^Reminders /d;/^$/d' | \
tr "\n" "," | sed 's/,$/ /')
PARTA='make new todo at the end of todos of calendar \
remcal with properties {summary:"'
PARTB='", due date:thisday}'
IFS=","
for TODONAME in $REMINPUT; do
osascript -e 'set remcal to "remind"' -e 'set thisday \
to current date' -e 'tell application "iCal"' \
-e "$PARTA$TODONAME$PARTB" -e 'activate' -e 'end tell'
done
