On 09.12.14 17:49, Scott Junner wrote:
> Yeah. I started writing it because I realise I could wait for ever for
> someone else to build me the thing I want and make it work the way I want
> it to work.
It's lotsa fun to write the "perfect app" from scratch. It's sure to
have a market of at least one - maybe more.
A diversity of needs and skillsets ensures a multiplicity of awesome
organisers, though. For some it might be a (dead tree) notebook or
Post-It notes - the batteries never go flat, and the display works
wherever your eyes do. They can import anything a pencil can handle.
For me, any *nix variant is my awesome organiser, with vim as the core
app. And since cal doesn't do look-ahead, I have a script which warns me
repeatedly in the fortnight up to anniversaries. For non-calendar stuff,
a variety of subject files are individually opened with vim, on a 2 or 3
letter alias, so I don't have to remember a pathname. What commercial
product would "organise" my register of Serrated Tussock (an atrocious
agricultural pest) infestations on our 3 sq. km farm - date & how many
plants found on each inspection of each site over the last half decade?
(Trends are important - for several years, numbers were increasing.)
My contacts database is a text file, with one line of awk aliased to the
command 't' for searching. It has followed me through 18 years at one
company, 12 at another, and 6 years since.
Different folding strategies on the various files present an initially
compressed view when editing, and a simple heading/keyword strategy
streamlines searching.
So, in short: Why learn the confining rat-run of some "app", when linux
allows us to do anything we want, using the skills we already have? (And
allows us to avoid GUIs to boot.)
Erik
--
When you find that you like Ubuntu you can then install it on your HD.
You can keep your XP system if you want to. This is called Duel booting.
- Douglas E Knapp, on ubuntu-users.
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