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Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by christophilus »

emacsen wrote: post #6

As a file format, this is just fine, but I feel like there's some conflation between a file format and software meant to interact with that format. I use plain text accounting for my business, and it's lovely to be able to enter bookkeeping data with a plain text editor and keep it all under version control, but the next step is using a program such as hledger or beancount to work with that data. I'd love to work wit…

I’d be interested to read a blog post about your setup. I’m about to start doing my own bookkeeping for my business, and was planning on doing it all in neovim.

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by sceadu »

Spare_account wrote: post #78
kragen wrote: post #77

I've been doing this since 02001, except without the week numbers. I switched from CVS to Git around 02009. Anyone who knows me will tell you I am not very organized. Possibly this is why. Android support is definitely substandard, even with Termux. It's not foolproof. On one occasion I typed in the month wrong, though in the right place in the file. When I noticed that the line was out of order, I moved it to where…

I like your future proof year numbering. Most current date formats are going to have a BIIG problem come the end of 9999 but not you!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by notdiaphone »

65 wrote: post #72

This seems like it'd be much more practical as a CSV file.

I always thought the same for todo.txt. Feels like showing a set of columns depending on the task and level of detail needed would be ideal. Someday I hope to tape together a proper todo.csv and calendar.csv ecosystem.

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by notdiaphone »

philsnow wrote: post #99
janpot wrote: post #81

my dad keeps his calendar in an excel file with almost the exact same format except he omits dates with no entries. Every week he prints a new version of this on a single A4 which he folds and keeps in his wallet. new events are hand written at the bottom and get included in the excel weekly. he's been doing this for as long as I can remember.

I love having the system-of-record being something powerful on a laptop, alongside having some paper artifact with just a small constrained view, which you update with a pencil and then reconcile with the SoR later. This is what I do for todos and reminders, with a few index cards binder-clipped together with a tiny pen. I use [0]; its size is right but it’s just a ballpoint refill that isn’t particularly great. Usin…

The Pilot Petit works well and has been reliable.

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by notdiaphone »

bArray wrote: post #29

My format used to be as follows: * [ ] YYYY-MM-DD * [ ] 1800: Dinner with parents * [x] Walk the dog * [ ] YYYY-MM-DD * [ ] 0900: Interview new recruit * [ ] Prepare interview questions * [ ] Upload result to HR system This worked really well for me and was easily searchable. One benefit would be that it is easily trackable in Git. These days I have a little A6 lined notebook and manually list tasks there. Each page…

> These days I have a little A6 lined notebook and manually list tasks there. Each page is a new day and the tasks are listed similarly.

Periodically my task system fails (the Taskwarrior 3 disaster being the most recent) and this is pretty much what I end up using. But then I forget a bill or something important because there are no bells or buzzers keeping me as a useful working unit. Then I erect the previous system, or some variant, and go with that until some inevitable breakage sends me back to paper. So it goes...

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by notdiaphone »

qudat wrote: post #46
emacsen wrote: post #6

As a file format, this is just fine, but I feel like there's some conflation between a file format and software meant to interact with that format. I use plain text accounting for my business, and it's lovely to be able to enter bookkeeping data with a plain text editor and keep it all under version control, but the next step is using a program such as hledger or beancount to work with that data. I'd love to work wit…

I’ve used this tool before for caldav: https://github.com/pimutils/khal

khal supports caldav: https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer

There is a task equivalent, which also supports caldav sync

https://github.com/pimutils/todoman

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by notdiaphone »

tero wrote: post #124
dddw wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, simpletask

SimpleTask Cloudless has been my favourite todo.txt app for Android. Unfortunately, SimpleTask is in low maintenance mode [1], and does not work well in my setup. According to mpcjanssen: "The suspending of the applications by Google #1102 and the continuously fixing breakage by Android API changes have reduced my Simpletask motivation to a very low level." [1]. [1] https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-android/is…

I'm not sure it's even in maintenance mode at this point. I wish I had the skills to maintain it as I quite like SimpleTask and may, even if unsupported, go back to it. Nothing compares on Android.

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by notdiaphone »

divbzero wrote: post #92
emacsen wrote: post #6

As a file format, this is just fine, but I feel like there's some conflation between a file format and software meant to interact with that format. I use plain text accounting for my business, and it's lovely to be able to enter bookkeeping data with a plain text editor and keep it all under version control, but the next step is using a program such as hledger or beancount to work with that data. I'd love to work wit…

todo.txt accomplished this with community apps that provided web and mobile interfaces to the text file: http://todotxt.org/

The problem is that most those tools end up unmaintained.

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by kleiba »

krupan wrote: post #112
kleiba wrote: post #21

Emacs got you covered, my friend, no reason to reinvent the wheel: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fo...

The diary is fine, but have you seen org-mode?

    (setq org-agenda-include-diary t)

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by air3y »

tero wrote: post #60
slmjkdbtl wrote: post #56

To me the biggest block for using any plain text format for daily stuff is I need a good mobile - laptop sync method that I can easily read / write and manage files on both mobile and laptop, does anyone have any recommendation? The best choice I can think right now is SimpleNote which I've been using for notes for a long time, but is there a way I can actually use .txt file instead of text been stored somewhere in a…

I recommend https://syncthing.net/ Works with all file formats, from photos and movies to text files. Cross platform: Linux, Windows, Android, probably also Mac and BSD. Update: And it's end-to-end encrypted and free, open-source software.

Note that work on the official android app is discontinued

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android --- "Discontinued This app is discontinued. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version."

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