Reader/Listener Greg wrote in a while ago and pointed a really great CLI tool for managing your calendar.
From Roaring Penquin:
Remind is a sophisticated calendar and alarm program. It includes the following features:
* A sophisticated scripting language and intelligent handling of exceptions and holidays.
* Plain-text, PostScript and HTML output.
* Timed reminders and pop-up alarms.
* A friendly graphical front-end for people who don’t want to learn the scripting language.
* Facilities for both the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars.
* Support for 12 different languages.
Even with these great features, learning the syntax for editing your reminders file can be daunting. Lucky for us, Greg also pointed out a fantastic ncurses frontend for remind that does a lot of the work for you!
Wyrd provides a nice timetable to view your appointments, as well as special tools for easily and efficiently manipulating calendar entries. You really need to watch the demo to see just how seriously cool this application is.
If you’re a text-mode person, or if you’re just tired of slow and bloated calendar GUIs, you owe it to your self to give this app a look.
Here are some other useful links that Greg provided in his email:
Sure, you use Vim for programming, maybe even a bit of writing. But have you thought of Vim/Gvim as your complete task-management solution? Here are 4 scripts that will set you on the right track:
PyGTD is a simple Getting Things Done (GTD) system based on David Allen’s
personal-productivity book and Stephen Covey’s ‘Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People’. It is implemented as Python script written by Keith Martin
(http://96db.com/pyGTD/). The goal is to easily organize and prioritize your
todo lists.
vimGTD is the Vim frontend to the Python program and includes such features as
syntax highlighting, file navigation support, and a quick help reference.
A file-type plug-in and syntax file for the Vim editor that provides readers of David Allen’s book, “Getting Things Done”, a way to manage their task lists from within Vim.
Note: The website for this appears to be dead, so I’m not sure if this script is actively maintained…your mileage may vary.
Provides filetype=’hiveminder’ for use with text file export from Hiveminder (http://hiveminder.com/)
tasks.txt is a formatted todo list which can be edited in place and sent back to Hiveminder to propagate changes.
TaskPaper is a to-do list application for Mac OS X based on the “Getting
Things Done” approach of David Allen (http://www.davidco.com/). It supports
the GTD notions of projects, tasks and contexts.
This package contains a syntax file and a file-type plugin for the simple
format used by the TaskPaper application. It is intended for Mac users who
want to edit their TaskPaper lists in Vim from time to time (for example, in
a SSH session, or on a non-Mac system) and for anyone who is looking for a
simple to-do list format.
Let us know what todo/GTD scripts for Vim work for you in the comments!
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Hi everyone! I’m so sorry, but I won’t be posting anything this week due to a family emergency that will be taking me out of state for the remainder of this week.
Hopefully I’ll be able to resume posting next week. See you then!
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I came across an article from the Linux and Lipgloss blog not long ago covering a project called OxygenOffice Professional. Apparently, this used to be a commercial project called OpenOffice Premium, but now it’s free! Basically, it’s just our beloved OpenOffice.org with a bunch of extra templates, fonts, clipart, and the like. Sounds like a time-saver if you’re setting up a new system and you don’t want to go on an Internet to safari to find all your OO.o extras.
As soon as I saw this video, possibilities began to run through my mind. This past semester, I’ve taken all my notes in TiddlyWiki, which has served me well. I know I won’t be abandoning the platform for all purposes, but I wonder how effective taking notes for my classes in Vim could be. Especially as a music student…I can already see how using this in conjunction with ABC music notation could be pretty cool.
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