A nice little walkthrough/tutorial of Remind: http://www.43folders.com/2005/02/24/guest-mike-harris-looks-at-remind http://www.43folders.com/2005/02/24/guest-mi

A nice little walkthrough/tutorial of Remind: http://www.43folders.com/2005/02/24/guest-mike-harris-looks-at-remind http://www.43folders.com/2005/02/24/guest-mike-harris-looks-... for example... Semi-Complex Tip: Date-Based Math You can do date-based math with Remind. Going on a family vacation, and you want to remind yourself every day of how many weeks you’ve got left, and how much money you can save before then? I hadn't originally realized that Remind could do this, but David Skoll at Roaring Penguin helped me work out how Remind could work in weeks, instead of days. From there, it's a quick math problem to apply it to pounds to lose, dollars to save, and so on. These lines, for example, are in my Remind file: fset _weeks() coerce("STRING", (trigdate()-today())/7) + plural((trigdate()-today())/7, " week") fset _dollars() coerce("STRING", (5(trigdate()-today())/7)) + plural(5((trigdate()-today())/7), " more dollar") Then, you can simply say: REM August 5 2005 +253 MSG You have [_weeks()] until your summer vacation.% REM August 5 2005 +253 MSG GOAL: Save [_dollars()] for summer vacation.% Schweet, huh?