Need advice on Reminder program

[randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol)]

Hi

I have started making a small reminder program called avtale (Norwegian
for appointment) because I am tired of all the programs for Linux that
suddenly stop reminding me about appointments I have. I want to make a
small daemon that reads in a text file with appointments and warn me by
popping up a dialog on the screen (possibly sound effect and more later,
but not now I want to keep it simple and reliable).

My thought is to use tasks for this. One task that pop up the dialogs,
one that read the text file and one that keeps track of the time. I do
not have experience with tasks so I am wondering if this is a stupid
approach :-) ? Is there something I should look out for so that the
daemon won't suddenly stop working. I want a really reliable program
:-).

Thanks in advance.

PS: No, this is not homework, well I make the program at home but for my
own leisure and not for any course :-)

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