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Speak and print your daily tasks and events

I keep track of my tasks using Remember The Milk and my calendar using Google Calendar. However, I don’t have a Blackberry or other phone with Internet access, so sometimes it’s nice of have a paper copy of what I have to do on a particular day.

I created a Ruby script that reads in my tasks from the RTM private feed and my events from the Google Calendar private ical feed. It then assembles a text file of everything happening that day and prints it out. For fun, I rigged it up with the Microsoft text-to-speech API, so you can have your agenda read to you too.

If you’re interested in using it, I’ve released a copy of the source code under the Apache 2.0 license. Get it here.

Note that you’ll need a copy of the Ruby iCalendar library for this to work.

Here’s a sample of the printer output and the speech output.

© 2008 Ryan Pfister.