It's been a while since I went looking for a calendar that handles this simple task only to be repeatedly disappointed. This is one feature that (uggh) Outlook handles right.
I want to keep track of monthly (or quarterly, or whatever) bills that recur. Assume it's Jan 1st and you have three bills due this month. You look at your task list and see the three bills along with the date they're due. You pay bill A and check off the task for that bill. Now you look at your task list and see 2 bills still due in January and one due in February. Pretty simple and logical way to keep track of monthly bills or other tasks that need to be done regularly, but haven't found any Linux apps that can handle this task. Anyone have any
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:27:39 -0800 Gordon Charrick wrote:
Pretty simple and logical way to keep track of monthly bills or other tasks that need to be done regularly, but haven't found any Linux apps that can handle this task.
Well, evolution can do it, but evolution is so annoying I gave up on using it a long time ago. Currently I use a combination of a silly program I wrote to popup messages and the "remind" program. Links are here:
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 15:55 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:27:39 -0800 Gordon Charrick wrote:
Pretty simple and logical way to keep track of monthly bills or other tasks that need to be done regularly, but haven't found any Linux apps that can handle this task.
Well, evolution can do it,
No it can't! It supports recurring appointments, but not recurring tasks.
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Gordon Charrick gordonmc@cox.net wrote:
that need to be done regularly, but haven't found any Linux apps that can handle this task. Anyone have any
Maybe just a web app, like gcal? Not really sure what you want. I have mine email me about stuff that needs to happen on a particular day, harder to deal with stuff that could happen in a range of days. Maybe send a reminder on the last day? That's how I deal with my mortgage payment.
Is this a bit OT?
best, Dave
On 12/27/2009 02:27 PM, Gordon Charrick wrote:
It's been a while since I went looking for a calendar that handles this simple task only to be repeatedly disappointed. This is one feature that (uggh) Outlook handles right.
I want to keep track of monthly (or quarterly, or whatever) bills that recur. Assume it's Jan 1st and you have three bills due this month. You look at your task list and see the three bills along with the date they're due. You pay bill A and check off the task for that bill. Now you look at your task list and see 2 bills still due in January and one due in February. Pretty simple and logical way to keep track of monthly bills or other tasks that need to be done regularly, but haven't found any Linux apps that can handle this task. Anyone have any
The Lightning extension for Thunderbird will do this with tasks.
On 12/27/09 14:48, Steven Stern wrote:
On 12/27/2009 02:27 PM, Gordon Charrick wrote:
It's been a while since I went looking for a calendar that handles this simple task only to be repeatedly disappointed. This is one feature that (uggh) Outlook handles right.
I want to keep track of monthly (or quarterly, or whatever) bills that recur. Assume it's Jan 1st and you have three bills due this month. You look at your task list and see the three bills along with the date they're due. You pay bill A and check off the task for that bill. Now you look at your task list and see 2 bills still due in January and one due in February. Pretty simple and logical way to keep track of monthly bills or other tasks that need to be done regularly, but haven't found any Linux apps that can handle this task. Anyone have any
The Lightning extension for Thunderbird will do this with tasks.
I checked out Lightning several months ago and it didn't handle recurring tasks worth a damn. If you look at bug 373755 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373775, it looks like it still doesn't work as it's supposed to.
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 12:27 -0800, Gordon Charrick wrote:
I want to keep track of monthly (or quarterly, or whatever) bills that recur.
I use kalarm to keep track of tasks; wouldn't know what to do without it any more.
I looked at tkremind (front end for remind) a while back and it would also work, but kalarm is simpler.
Gordon Charrick wrote:
It's been a while since I went looking for a calendar that handles this simple task only to be repeatedly disappointed. This is one feature that (uggh) Outlook handles right.
I want to keep track of monthly (or quarterly, or whatever) bills that recur. Assume it's Jan 1st and you have three bills due this month. You look at your task list and see the three bills along with the date they're due. You pay bill A and check off the task for that bill. Now you look at your task list and see 2 bills still due in January and one due in February. Pretty simple and logical way to keep track of monthly bills or other tasks that need to be done regularly, but haven't found any Linux apps that can handle this task. Anyone have any
I have been using the "remind" program for years. It takes input in text files and can generate task lists, text calendars for email, or HTML calendars to your web size. It handles things like "first tuesday after the first monday", the bizarre rules about when US holidays have been moved to make three day weekend and remove historical significance, and the like.
Also does differences, so you can print not only the birthday of kids but their age this year, anniversaries, last friday in the quarter, Easter, whatever. And you can generate documentation or actually execute programs, which is also handy.
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 20:08 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Also does differences, so you can print not only the birthday of kids but their age this year, anniversaries, last friday in the quarter, Easter, whatever.
Just once, or maybe every time, I'd like to see a calendar NOT ask me a year to go with a birthday. Quite often I don't know the year, and I never will, but I have to type something in before it'll let me enter a birthday reminder, so you end up with reminders with silly ages.
Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 20:08 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Also does differences, so you can print not only the birthday of kids but their age this year, anniversaries, last friday in the quarter, Easter, whatever.
Just once, or maybe every time, I'd like to see a calendar NOT ask me a year to go with a birthday. Quite often I don't know the year, and I never will, but I have to type something in before it'll let me enter a birthday reminder, so you end up with reminders with silly ages.
Remind allows a month/day without year, although obviously you don't set the message to calculate the age for you...
REM Jul 24 MSG Jan's birthday
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:08:52 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I have been using the "remind" program for years. It takes input in text files and can generate task lists, text calendars for email, or HTML calendars to your web size. It handles things like "first tuesday after the first monday", the bizarre rules about when US holidays have been moved to make three day weekend and remove historical significance, and the like.
Also does differences, so you can print not only the birthday of kids but their age this year, anniversaries, last friday in the quarter, Easter, whatever. And you can generate documentation or actually execute programs, which is also handy.
Very nice indeed.
Also dayplanner may be worth a try. Not as sophisticated as remind (can't skip over holidays, doesn't seem to be able to take an action upon an event, etc.) but runs as a daemon, so it reduces desktop clutter.
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