etm is an acronym for event and task manager. This application provides a simple, intuitive format for using plain text files to store events, tasks and other data items. Items can be created, modified and viewed in a variety of convenient ways using either the command line or a cross-platform, PyQt based GUI. Repetition is supported in a powerful and flexible manner for tasks as well as events. Supported alarm types in the GUI include display, sound, voice (using system text to speech), email, text message and process.