Service Reminder is a project can be used Create a series of Calendar Event for any service automatically. The Application is written in Python (2.7) and Currently supports only Gmail account to send the Calendar events.

Step 1 : Install the Application

Application can be installed by cloning this repository to your directory. After cloning the repo, go to the project directory and run pip install --upgrade .

After the installation you can check the application status by running reminder --help

Step 2 : Creating a Configuration file

A configuration file is needed for the application, the structure of the file should be /etc/reminder/reminder.conf. An email [supports only Gmail as of now] address and Password should be entered in the created file under the DEFAULT section, which is needed to send the calendar invite.

Sample conf file is available in here.

Step 3 : Adding the Services

You need to add a service first before sending the reminder.

Command to create a sample service is,

reminder add --name Bike --date 01/07/2015 --interval 15,30,45 --enddate 01/07/2017 --time 1900 --before 1w

After running this command a section will get created in the conf file you have created before, which will be used to create the calenadr invite.

You can also delete this section by running,

reminder delete --name Bike

Step 4 : Listing the Services

After adding some services to the file, we can list all the services created using the below command,

reminder list

Step 5 : Creating the Reminder

This function is not developed yet, Idea here is to take all the services defined in the conf file and send a reminder to the given email address using the gmail account defined in conf file.