[HN Gopher] Plain Text Calendar
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Plain Text Calendar
Author : gaws
Score : 56 points
Date : 2022-05-31 19:55 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| trafnar wrote:
| This is similar in spirit to my app, TaskTXT
| (https://www.tasktxt.com). It's a plain text task manager which
| allows you to time your tasks, helping you avoid distraction. The
| timer data is stored right in the document.
|
| I made a video about how it works:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbGawb728xA
| prash_ant wrote:
| Emacs users, you have the built-in diary which also integrates
| with org-agenda. It's perfect for recurring events like
| birthdays, bills and also provides reminder.
|
| [1]
| https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fo...
| MollyRealized wrote:
| http://www.43folders.com/2005/02/24/guest-mike-harris-looks-...
| ydnaclementine wrote:
| Maybe not what the article is exactly talking about, but `cal`
| will give you a calendar in terminal. `cal -3` will give you each
| surrounding month, and `cal 2022` will give you the full year
| tlavoie wrote:
| One of my earliest computing-adjacent exposures was going into
| my dad's office as a kid. Besides getting to type random things
| on punch-cards, we'd typically bring home these line-printer
| calendars with a Snoopy (or whatever) ASCII-art pic at the top.
| behnamoh wrote:
| wish it had hyperlinks so that clicking on them would open up
| the date events.
|
| speaking of, cal is just a calendar. It doesn't have events
| anyway.
| adamrmcd wrote:
| Often I use cal to find the previous or next month. I never
| understood why two parameters it assumes `cal mm yyyy` but when
| one parameter is provided assumes `cal yyyy` instead of `cal
| mm`.
|
| ie, I just want to see April of this year: but `cal 4` returns
| Jan-Dec 0004 CE <!>
|
| `cal -3` is perfect!
| dqv wrote:
| I like the idea, but it seems to have a flaw (or I missed how one
| should handle this). Not all events happen on the same day,
| especially if you work third shift. I guess you would just split
| it into two events (not really a fan) or just do something like
| 23-3, but then it kind of breaks the "one day per line" rule.
| cuhlur wrote:
| stimpson_j_cat wrote:
| Calendar apps are so complicated and tightly integrated with
| other productivity apps now I'm not sure the benefit of
| simplicity here outweighs the cost of losing that.
|
| My Google cal emails me notifications, works with desktop
| calendar apps, integrates with Maps, etc. It autofills addresses,
| adjusts for time zones, syncs across my 4000 devices, allows me
| to edits dates via text input or GUI/drag 'n drop, etc. (Not
| shilling, Apple cal is probably similar.)
|
| Even my todo list went from org mode to Google Tasks because of
| the integrations with Android, Google Calendar, etc.
| ttty wrote:
| twobitshifter wrote:
| https://docs.fileformat.com/email/ics/
|
| ics is already plain text.
| minsc_and_boo wrote:
| And not really that human readable.
|
| This plain text calendar would be more powerful if it came with
| an ICS parser.
| dvtrn wrote:
| or if I could just inject and print my own calendar events to
| and from the `cal` command and send _that_ through an ical
| parser--item added via a plain text calendar, added to ical,
| and immediately updated event on my phone. It 's been on my
| mind to just write something like this as a side project
| forever but...
|
| I am remarkably lazy sometimes.
| minsc_and_boo wrote:
| Well that's what I was thinking of, to put this plain text
| calendar on an e-ink screen with RPi. A google cal or ical
| integration out of the box.
|
| I _guess_ I can roll my own OAuth and parser, but then I 'm
| not going to use this linked plain text calendar.
| stimpson_j_cat wrote:
| 2021-03-03 w09 ke 8-1345 +lp bash-db; (14-1545 +mp);
| 1530 FxBar
|
| Is _that_ particularly readable? There 's a whole section
| dedicated to _how_ to read the entries and why the syntax is
| the way it is.
| jrm4 wrote:
| Interesting. I was expecting something similar to my daily
| driver, which is Remind -
| https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
|
| I think I still prefer Remind's approach for now; it keeps the
| ability to have a plaintext viewable thing, but Remind also
| appears more scriptable and exportable; e.g. I make mine both
| give me reminders in my Terminal, and I can also make it print
| out a regular "human-ready" calendar.
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