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:

43Folders On Remind
Google Calendar in Remind

Thanks Greg!

Filed under: CLI Fun, Calendaring