Convert iCal to Remind

ical2rem.pl

iCal2Rem at jalcorn.net

Requires Developer Tools and Perl modules:

cpan -i iCal::Parser

Group all calendars you want to sync with Remind in iCal and publish them. Plug the url to the published .ics into the following command:

curl http://homepage.mac.com/username/.calendars/toRemind.ics | ical2rem.pl --label "iCal2Reminder" >~/.ical2rem

Convert Remind to iCal

Rem2ics

Turn on Personal Web Sharing in the Sharing pane of System Preferences so that you can get a valid URL to subscribe to. Will look something like

http://your-computer.local/~username/NameOfCalendar.ics

Subscribe to this calendar in iCal. Then run this command in terminal to sync the calendars.

remind -s30 -irem2ics=1 ~/.reminders | TZ=US/Eastern rem2ics -do -norecur >/Users/username/Sites/Reminder2iCal.ics

It's a cheap alternative to Spanning Sync.

Tips

Avoid duplication of events when you sync from iCal to Remind and back again by wrapping your .ical2rem include file with an IF statement in your .reminders file. Your .reminders file would look something like this:

IF defined("rem2ics")
include /Users/username/.ical2rem
ENDIF
include /Users/username/other/remind/include/.file1
include /Users/username/other/remind/include/.file2

Then remove -irem2ics=1 from your command like so:

remind -s30 ~/.reminders | TZ=US/Eastern rem2ics -do -norecur >/Users/username/Sites/Reminder2iCal.ics

Now you can get all of your iCal events into Remind and onto your desktop with an app like Geek Tool using the following commands:

Weekly calendar:

/usr/local/bin/remind -irem2ics=1 -c+ ~/.reminders

Daily list:

/usr/local/bin/remind -irem2ics=1 ~/.reminders

But without all of your iCal events getting synced back into iCal from your .reminders file.

Growl notifications of timed events

Install growlnotify from the Growl site. The forum is a good place to search for help. Wasn't too difficult.

Run this command after you boot your computer or set it as a login item. I haven't figured out how to do that successfully yet.

nohup remind -z -k'/usr/local/bin/growlnotify -n remind -a iCal -t Reminder -s -m %s &' ~/.reminders &

Quicksilver

Quicksilver Append to Remind