HELP: Reminder/WhiteBoard APP

**wizer** · 18th July 2003

ok I know nothing about programming. I have an Archos Jukebox which when plugged in to the PC acts like a HDD. At the moment I have a Autorun.inf file in there which changed the icon of the drive letter.

What I need is to have a application that runs as soon as I plug it that can act as like a reminder/white board. For example: I'm at work and I remember that I need to download a certain MP3 when I get in. So I write it on the white board. when I get home It pops up and I remember to d/l it. This would apply to lots of things Milk, Wipe my arse, etc

Any Ideas? I got Visual Basic here. I dont think it would be hard to code, but as I say.. I know nuffin

**graham.edmon** · 18th July 2003

how about creating a batch file with your reminders in Messenger boxes i.e.

reminder.bat
@echo off
net send 127.0.0.1 "Remember to wash car"
net send 127.0.0.1 "Our wedding anniversary, don't forget pressie or you're sleeping with the dog"

then in your autorun.inf you have

[autorun]
open= reminder.bat

**wizer** · 18th July 2003

yes i have been toying with this sort of idea. But I really want an editable list.. just like notepad. I'm going to see if I can launch a .txt file using .bat files

**graham.edmon** · 21st July 2003

put this into your bat file

@echo off
notepad.exe c:\temp\myfile.txt

**wizer** · 22nd July 2003

thanks, the batch file works now and if i double click the drive letter it loads the txt file. But I cant get it to launch the txt file when I plug the drive in?

any ideas?

autorun.inf
[autorun]
ICON=\.rockbox\ARCHOS.ICO
OPEN=autorun.bat

autorun.bat
@echo off
notepad.exe \reminder.txt

**nitelife** · 2nd September 2003

Are you sure the PC is setup to use the autorun feature? I know you can disable it...

You could (if you wanted) add a menu option (right click) on the drive as well:

shell\todo\command=notepad readme.txt
shell\todo=To &Do...