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Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by WhyNotHugo » Sun, Mar 02, 2025, 9:06 PM UTC

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…

pimsync synchronises CalDav to a directory where each event is an icalendar file. You can use khal or any other tool to operate in these files.

This tools is a successor to vdirsyncer, which filled a similar role but with several limitations.

I’ve working in Pimsync for many months now. The basics all work fine, but still working in some extended feature. Feedback is most welcome at this stage.

https://pimsync.whynothugo.nl/

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by bArray » Tue, Mar 04, 2025, 10:03 AM UTC

setopt wrote: post #95

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…

Why did you make the day itself into a checkbox? Did you use this for weekly reviews or something?

To mark the parsing of the day and to note that any incomplete tasks that I intend to keep have been re-planned to elsewhere. Any marked days are then there for historic purposes only.

Re: Calendar.txt

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Post by theedwood » Fri, Mar 07, 2025, 4:12 PM UTC

kruffalon wrote: post #7

Have you looked into remind[0] while working on this? There might be value in checking that out. Personally I haven't used it in years, but the latest release is from this year so it seems active. ---- [0] https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/

I used to use remind and wyrd[0] along with remind-caldav[1] for calendaring. I believe I either used remind-caldav or a custom python script set in my mailcap file (I don't remember which it was now) that would open up calendar attachments on emails and save them in remind and remind was sync'd with google calendar.

The details of how I had it all wired up are now lost to memory, but it seemed to accomplish a similar goal to calendar.txt while supporting standard calendar file formats and sync with Google Calendar.

[0] https://wyrd-calendar.gitlab.io/wyrd/

[1] https://github.com/jspricke/remind-caldav