07 january 2024
Pretty productive day. It, being early January, is time for me to generate a year's worth of email subject & body texts that remind people about meetings that occur on an "nth weekday of every month" kind of schedule, for pasting into my email composer & scheduling to be sent n number of days ahead of each meeting. For that, I happen to have a nice little Python script that figures out all of the relevant dates and plugs them into the right spots, including when the meeting is, when agenda items are due (4 days before the meeting), and when the reminder email should go out (7 days before the meeting), and spits all that out into a single text file.
Before I generated my email content, though, I made some improvements to my
script! I added typer prompts so it'll ask you for all the parameters one by
one. I also added basic jinja2 templating so the non-variable parts of the
emails can be edited more easily.
So now my script is updated and my emails for this year are scheduled. Done and done!
The script is part of a small collection of scripts so small that publishing them in separate repositories would be overkill. See the "meeting-email-helper" directory in Cordelya's Python Minis.
OH! I nearly forgot.. I last tested on January 5th. Still positve but that line was barely there. Will test again tomorrow morning to make sure I'm good to go to work.