[HN Gopher] Plain Text Calendar ___________________________________________________________________ Plain Text Calendar Author : gaws Score : 56 points Date : 2022-05-31 19:55 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (terokarvinen.com) (TXT) w3m dump (terokarvinen.com) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-31 23:00 UTC)