# Remind

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Remind and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Remind, a free calendar and alarm program developed since the 1980s, for its stable, scriptable workflow.

## Why people recommend it

- Scriptable from shell scripts (2 comments): "At 6am every day I run a script that dumps the scheduled events for the day out of remind." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920829)) "I incorporate it into a few bash scripts for my prompt" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920582))
- Mature tool that rarely changes (2 comments): "This is a really pessimistic view on a tool that has been developed since the 80s." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45925353)) "Remind hasn't changed in years and neither has my workflow" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932337))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Google Calendar](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-calendar.md): 27 recommend
- [Apple Calendar](https://hackerapproved.com/p/apple-calendar.md): 18 recommend
- [Proton Calendar](https://hackerapproved.com/p/proton-calendar.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Remind", https://hackerapproved.com/p/remind/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).