simple and nice

While reading through the blogs at petalingstreet.org, I found someone blogging about the post-it notes software, kind of electronic version of post-it notes. Since I\'ve yet to get my Zire71 working on FreeBSD, I\'m also thinking of an electronic reminder on my pc. Then an idea came to my mind. Why not just used the simple unix command such as \'tail\' to do this simple job. I have transparent eterm sitting on my desktop, ready for command. So, to have reminder on my desktop I would just run these two simple command:
$ echo \'CEB4134 class at 10.30\' >> notes.txt [repeat this for every new event]
$ tail -f ~/notes.txt
Now I have reminder sitting on the desktop and is updated every time I put new note in the notes.txt file. Simple and nice. It\'s lack the alarm to notify for the event but paper notes also don\'t have alarm ..isn\'t it ? Maybe I could use my cron to play some sound ...