ere

This is an event reminder CLI. It currently supports two calendar systems Gregorian (A.D) and Nepali (B.S).

Adding events

One off events

To be reminded about calling mom tomorrow, run
ere add +1 --title "call mom".

To be reminded about poster presentation coming up on 29th october, run
ere add 2025-10-29-AD --title "poster presentation".

To also be reminded the poster presentation one day before the presentation date run
ere add 2025-10-29-AD --title "poster presentation" --knock="1".

To be reminded the poster presentation every day for one week before the presentation run
ere add 2025-10-29-AD --title "poster presentation" --knock="1,2,3,4,5,6,7".

Yearly events (like birthdays)

To be reminded about your friend's birthday on Kartik 12, run
ere add "*-7-12-BS" --title "suman's birthday" --knock="1".

Note that we don't mention year in the date format because that would make it a one off event. We want to be reminded every year on our friend's birthday.

Monthly events (like grocery at the beginning of the month)

To be reminded about Sakranti (first day of the month in the Nepali calendar), run
ere add "*-*-1-BS" --title "sakranti".

To be reminded about taking the trash out on the 7th of the month. run
ere add "*-*-7-AD" --title "take the trash out".

To be reminded also one day before taking the trash out. run
ere add "*-*-7-AD" --title "take the trash out" --knock="1".

Viewing events

Run ere ls to view events. You can list events whose title matches a given regex by runing ere search <pattern>.

For example, to list events that have the word birthday in their title, run
ere search 'birthday'

Delete event

To delete an event by given id, run
ere delete <id>

Checking for events

To view today's events, run
ere check

To view yesterday's events, (note the extra -- because a - alone means flag is specified) run
ere check -- -1

To view day after tomorrow's events, run
ere check 2

To view events on Oct 29, 2024, run
ere check 2024-10-29-AD

To view events on Baiskah 10, 2078, run
ere check 2078-1-10-BS

Automatically checking for today's events

There's is also a command called ere daily that runs the ere check internally if ere check hasn't been run even once today. I have placed the ere daily at the end of my ~/.zshrc file so that when I open the terminal for the first time on any given day, I see the events for that day. The next time I open terminal on that day, it doesn't show anything. But of course, I could just run ere check anytime to see events for that day or any day.

Syncing events between two computers.

All the data files are stored locally in .ere folder in the home directory. Run ls ~/.ere to see these files. The list of events is stored in a file called ~/.ere/events.toml. I have personally created this file in my dotfiles directory and created a symlink to ~/.ere/events.toml by running:

mkdir -p ~/dotfiles/ere
ln -sf "${HOME}/dotfiles/ere/events.toml" "${HOME}/.ere/events.toml"

Note that my dotfiles folder lives in the home directory.

Because my dotfiles directory is git version controlled, when I install ere on another computer and pull my dotfiles directory (and create the symlink like mentioned above), I have the same list of events available on both computers. Note though that, you probably don't want to do this if your dotfiles directory is public because this would make your events public.

Archive old events

To archive past events, run ere archive. This goes through each event and checks if this event won't arrive in the future again. If such, then it puts this event in the archived.toml file. You can list all archived events using ere ls --archive and search through them using ere search <pattern> --archive

Installing / Updating ere

For macOS/Linux

rm -f `which ere`
curl -s https://ere-sumanchapai.vercel.app/install.txt | sh

For Windows

Have go >= 1.21 installed. Clone the repo, then run go install .