dailygrind is an adesklets widget that keeps you informed of repetitive tasks. Things that you do every day, you need every week, every month, every year, or even just a once-off, are all shown in a small box on your desktop.

Download

You'll need to install adesklets first, which is best obtained via your Linux package manager.

• dailygrind-1.0.3 (6 KB Gzip'ed tarball)
• dailygrind-1.0.2 (6 KB Gzip'ed tarball)
• dailygrind-1.0.0 (6 KB Gzip'ed tarball)

See the comments for the change log.

Usage

You can test or register the desklet by going to the directory and entering:

./dailygrind.py

Change the schedule.txt and config.txt files to your taste. See the provided README file for more.

Features

• Support for repeated events:
  • daily
  • weekly
  • monthly
  • yearly
• Support for one-off events on a given date.
• Provide hours for events, or set them to be displayed all day.
• Override and shadow general event rules with more specific ones.
• Switch certain events visible/invisible by putting ellipses (...) at the end.

Example schedule

Events are given in hours, but you can use an asterisk (*) for all-day events, or an exclamation mark (!) to shadow and remove events from more general sections.

every-day
0-7   Sleep
7-8   Breakfast
8-9   Hit the road
9-12  Blurg
12-13 Lunch
13-17 More blurg
17-18 Hit the road again
18-24 Jam out

every-week-on Saturday
*     Take it easy...
!     Blurg
!     More blurg

every-week-on Sunday
*     Take it easy...
!     Blurg
!     More blurg

every-month-on 2nd
*     Pick up Bart