alex chiang: web 6.0

GMinder - GMail based birthday reminders

I have a terrible time remembering birthdays. I also don’t know anything about databases, but I do know that the GMail service has pretty good uptime, and that you can store contact information there. Enter GMinder.

download

• gminder.python (rename to gminder.py after download)

  Usage Notes

  • GMinder is a python script and depends on libgmail.
  • You will need to edit the script so that it uses your GMail login and password
  • On the GMail side, for each contact you wish to keep track of, enter the following into the “notes” section:
    • birthday: 06/23/1979

    Note that for now, you will need to put leading zeroes.

  • You will probably want to run GMinder from a cron job. My crontab looks like this:
    • 0 1 * * * /home/achiang/local/bin/gminder.py

  issues

  • this is v1.0
  • is this worthy of sourceforge?
  • the regexp that looks for birthday strings could be updated to be less fragile (ie, not require leading zeroes)
  • should create a web front end
  • should probably remove hard coded values
  • only one reminder per year (rather than the present email count down)
  • this can probably be expanded to be a general purpose reminder (clever use of labels, etc)
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