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Send Self Reminders To Your Email From The Command Line

The following will allow you to send self reminders/TODO items to your Email at a specific time.

For example, if you want to remind yourself to submit an assignment at 15:20, you’ll be able to run this command to do it:

tdr “submit assignment” 15:20

This will send an Email to you, with the subject: [TODO] submit assignment. Email will be sent at 15:20.

To be able to do this, you migh need to configure your mail command (see my post about this).

Then, add this function to your ~/.bashrc file (or any file sources in bashrc):

function tdr {echo “mail -s \”[TODO] $1\” your.mail@domain.com < /dev/null” | at “$2″ 2> /dev/null;}

tdr stands for: TODO reminders. Of course you can choose any other name for the function.

No execute this:

source ~/.bashrc

That’s it, now you can try it:

tdr “Testing” 15:30

The [TODO] label in the subject is added to let you easily use Gmail filters to apply a specific label to your TODO items.

Based on a tip at Tips4Linux

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Tags: Bash, Command Line Interface, Email, Linux, Productivity