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Reminders with WSL

Hi everyone,

I was looking for an app that should allow me to set a quick reminder without any additional functionality.

The one was found, it is `at` binary which is available by default on most (if not all) Linux distributions (checkout `man at`). Shortly, the `at` command allows you to specify a command and time you want to run that command at.

My current setup

What I want, is to get a notification at some special time. For notifications we can use `notify-send`, but since I'm currently on Windows and use WSL, we will use my `wsl-notify` script (checkout for [notify-send replacement for WSL]({% post_url 2019-01-13-wsl-windows-toast %}) post)

Complete remind script

I've added a function to my zshrc and called it `remind`.

Here is its code:

remind() {
  echo "/path/to/wsl-notify \"$1\"" | at "$2"
}

The usage is next:

$ remind 'call mom' '1:00pm'

And at 1:00pm I will get the native windows notification which I can even snooze. Brilliant.