[GUI Plugin] Comfy Reminders

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by Karellen

Thanks @Comfy.n

I think something is broken in v1.2. When I click on the "Add reminder" button underneath the calendar, nothing happens. I can only add a reminder by using a Quick Reminder and then editing the reminder time.

Also, I am not getting a pop-up. Does that only happen at startup or will it pop-up even when Calibre has been sitting open at the alarm time?

It definitely should and would popup everytime during my tests..

Let's see if this fixes it, we had a migration function but maybe it didn't work. So, unfortunately I have to ask you this:

- first, make a backup of your JSON via Export JSON, because it might be useful if we get the plugin working well again;

- then please open your configuration folder, and enter \plugins. You can use the attached plugin, BTW.

- delete the following files: comfy_reminders.json and Comfy Reminders.zip. Deleting the zip is almost like uninstalling the plugin but once you are in Config Folder it's safe and faster to do that. Be careful though not to mess with other files in there.

Hopefully, once the plugin state is "reset", it will be functioning well again.

Another thing you could try is toggling the Enable systray icon setting in Look & Feel preferences. The plugin should work either way but it's worth trying with Enable systray icon checked.

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Thank you! The custom column date for me is working great. Now, if I can ask...., if you could sort the reminder table by title and reminder time (and perhaps status), it would be great. In any case, I think this is going to be very useful for me.

I will implement some sorting in next version, thanks for the suggestion!

[Comfy.n]

@Karellen, I forgot to ask you to take a look at your notification settings, i have set them like this on Win 10 (I know you're on Win11 but it should be similar):

[Karellen]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

Let's see if this fixes it, we had a migration function but maybe it didn't work. So, unfortunately I have to ask you this:

- first, make a backup of your JSON via Export JSON, because it might be useful if we get the plugin working well again;

- then please open your configuration folder, and enter \plugins. You can use the attached plugin, BTW.

- delete the following files: comfy_reminders.json and Comfy Reminders.zip. Deleting the zip is almost like uninstalling the plugin but once you are in Config Folder it's safe and faster to do that. Be careful though not to mess with other files in there.

Ok, did that. Same result.
Then did an uninstall via Calibre and then ensured there were no comfyreminders leftovers in the plugin folder. Installed v1.2 again, and same result.
Here is a video. (Actually I'll pm it too you)

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

@Karellen, I forgot to ask you to take a look at your notification settings, i have set them like this on Win 10 (I know you're on Win11 but it should be similar):

Thanks. I've adjusted these settings. I'll see if that works.

[Karellen]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

@Karellen, I forgot to ask you to take a look at your notification settings, i have set them like this on Win 10 (I know you're on Win11 but it should be similar):

Yep that works!!

[Karellen]

Hopefully I am not missing the obvious again...

I am trying to set the Date column in the Settings for the plugin, but it does not give me the option for the "published date", only the last read date.

How can I change that?

[Comfy.n]

Hmm, that's because current version supports only custom columns. I thought built-in columns could only be past dates, so it wouldn't make sense to add reminders, but I will implement this in the next version.

[Comfy.n]

In the meantime, you could use a custom date column using this basic template:

{pubdate}

(actually pubdate isn't detected as date column, but this will be solved by adding support for built-in columns)

[Terisa de morgan]

Another corner case but I'm going to comment it anyway: If you add a reminder over a book, based on custom column, that has already been created, there is no warning about it and a duplicated reminder is created.

[Comfy.n]

I have uploaded version 1.3:

• detects duplicate reminders when adding from custom columns
  
• newly added reminders will show on top of listing
  
• added category selector to notebook entries
  
• reorganised the exporting actions
  
• added support for built-in Published column
  
• now issues a feedback message if user doesn't add a reminder title
  
• basic translation support
  
• added timestamps to filenames on exports
  

[Terisa de morgan]

Thank you, I've checked and now you can order the reminders pressing the column title, so now I can order my reminders! And about duplicated, it works for reminders you've created now. If you had cretaed the reminder before this version, it isn't detected. Corner case, you know, but it works totally right, thank you.

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Thank you, I've checked and now you can order the reminders pressing the column title, so now I can order my reminders! And about duplicated, it works for reminders you've created now. If you had cretaed the reminder before this version, it isn't detected. Corner case, you know, but it works totally right, thank you.

thanks for confirming it's working fine for you

[dunhill]

Testing on Linux, for reference, I get this error:

calibre, version 8.2.1
ERROR: Comfy Reminders Error: Error checking notifications: 'DBUSNotifier' object has no attribute 'ok'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.comfy_reminders.action", line 143, in check_notifications
if self.notifier and self.notifier.ok:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'DBUSNotifier' object has no attribute 'ok'

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by dunhill

Testing on Linux, for reference, I get this error:

calibre, version 8.2.1
ERROR: Comfy Reminders Error: Error checking notifications: 'DBUSNotifier' object has no attribute 'ok'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.comfy_reminders.action", line 143, in check_notifications
if self.notifier and self.notifier.ok:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'DBUSNotifier' object has no attribute 'ok'

thanks, that will help solve the issue!

[Comfy.n]

@dunhill, could you please test the attached test version on Linux?