Calendar.txt

Post by faxmeyourcode » Fri, Feb 28, 2025, 7:16 PM UTC

hoherd wrote: post #69

I do something similar for daily notes for work. I have a shell alias `tdw` for `TODO work` which opens a YYYY-MM.md file in vim. Inside of that markdown file I use a vim macro that generates a date similar to what is shown in calendar.txt, where I take notes about what I am working on and what I have worked on. Here's ane example of what it looks like: ## 2025-02-27 W09 Thursday - Team standup - Looking up flights t…

    function notes {
      THIS_MONTH="$(date '+%Y-%m')"

      mkdir -p "$NOTES_FOLDER/$THIS_MONTH" # create folder if it doesn't exist.
      cd "$NOTES_FOLDER/$THIS_MONTH"

      if [ -z "$1" ]; then
        return 0
      fi

      vim $1
      cd -
    }

Post by smilliken » Fri, Feb 28, 2025, 7:19 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #43

Plain text is fine as a backing format...but not as an interface for something more complicated than text or lists. Editing this on mobile sounds very annoying.

Post by tero » Fri, Feb 28, 2025, 7:39 PM UTC

thesuitonym wrote: post #104

You make a good argument on why to use a plain text calendar, but not why you shouldn't use the `calendar(3)` format. I think this really speaks to the problem of discoverability that standard Unix tools have. A lot of problems have already been solved by those tools that are included on every BSD, every Mac OS computer, and most Linux distributions, but nobody knows about them, and there isn't really a good way to s…

           LANG=C
           Easter=Ostern

           #include 
           #include 

           6/15\tJune 15 (if ambiguous, will default to month/day).
           Jun. 15\tJune 15.
           15 June\tJune 15.
           Thursday\tEvery Thursday.
           June\tEvery June 1st.
           15 *\t15th of every month.

           May Sun+2\tsecond Sunday in May (Muttertag)
           04/SunLast\tlast Sunday in April,
           \tsummer time in Europe
           Easter\tEaster
           Ostern-2\tGood Friday (2 days before Easter)
           Paskha\tOrthodox Easter

Post by listeria » Fri, Feb 28, 2025, 8:10 PM UTC

tero wrote: post #73

s0fasurfa wrote: post #71

Nice idea, but the calendar format is a bit verbose for my taste. Week number is something I would have to look up constantly and surely get wrong more than once. If you want to follow UNIX philosophy, why don't you write an augmenter/converter tool `caug` that adds "computed" information such as week number, weekday or even relative date? > cat calendar-src.txt 2025 ==== 03-01 9-12 project groups > cat calendar-src.…

I use a template [1] that includes week numbers. With some traditional GUI calendar software, I was often hunting and miscopying week numbers. Some software also had a weird (non ISO-8601) idea of week numbers. In case you need calendar.txt after 2033, I wrote a small tool [2] to generate more templates. [1] https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/calendar-txt-unti... [2] https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt…

  usage: weeks YYYY-MM-DD YYYY-MM-DD
  
  weeks () {
      one_day=$((60 * 60 * 24))
      unix_from=$(date +%s --date="$1")
      unix_to=$(date +%s --date="$2")
  
      while [ $unix_from -lt $unix_to ]
      do
          echo @$unix_from
          unix_from=$((unix_from + one_day))
      done | date +'%F w%V %a' -f -
  
      unset -v one_day unix_from unix_to
  }

Post by hoherd » Fri, Feb 28, 2025, 8:39 PM UTC

faxmeyourcode wrote: post #101

hoherd wrote: post #69

I do something similar for daily notes for work. I have a shell alias `tdw` for `TODO work` which opens a YYYY-MM.md file in vim. Inside of that markdown file I use a vim macro that generates a date similar to what is shown in calendar.txt, where I take notes about what I am working on and what I have worked on. Here's ane example of what it looks like: ## 2025-02-27 W09 Thursday - Team standup - Looking up flights t…

I've got something very similar as a function in my ~/.zshrc, except instead of days separated by lines I start a new file for each topic. Most of my notes are write-only for a day or so but I keep the old ones around just in case I need to grep through everything (and I've saved myself doing this a few times). function notes { THIS_MONTH="$(date '+%Y-%m')" mkdir -p "$NOTES_FOLDER/$THIS_MONTH" # create folder if it d…