Terminal tip: Remind yourself about appointments

You can use Quicksilver for alarms, too.
Invoke Quicksilver, type ., type your message, tab, QSLargeTypeAction (if you press return now, it displays the message), ctrl+return, "run after delay" or "run at time", tab, enter your time (e.g. "5 minutes" or "17:56"), return and a big text bubble pops up with your text.

Note that this only works if you don't close the terminal window you started the process in. If you do that, the alarm will not trigger. I imagine switching users (su) would "break" this feature as well.

Anyone gonna gripe about yet another Terminal.app tip like the last one? ;)

leave is pretty old, too. I remember now (that I've seen this post) that I used to use it all the time back in the late '80s on our Sun work stations. It's so old, that I forgot that I used to use it.

Still a good tip though!

Cool - that will come in handy all those times when iCal is just too complicated.

Yea that was very cool but you were 12 hours late. I had to give a presentation and I needed a way to set a small alarm to warn me when I should be finishing up.

now that's a handy tip