Re: console pim? - what to use to track appointments

[Aaron]

Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been thinking about the combination of tools/applications needed to have 
PIM functionality at the console.  This would allow me to use the same 
software on my desktop (FreeBSD) and NEC Mobilepro (NetBSD).

Syncing - rsync should provide efficient syncing of email if I use the maildir 
email format.  Since the address book is in one file, I'll have to be careful 
about where/when I make entries.  I can script the rsync activities for ease 
of use.

Email - mutt, fetchmail, msmtp and procmail can handle the email functions.

Address book - abook can provide the address book and works with mutt.

Schedule/Calendar - ???  Here's where I'm stumped.  cal will show me calendars 
when I need then; but I don't know what to use to keep track of meetings and 
other appointments.  calendar has lists of dates; but doesn't facilitate data 
entry and the format doesn't facilitate various fields of information (date, 
time, place, subject, contact, etc).  Does anyone have any suggestions?
You could probably cobble something together built on cron, and 
something like gdbm.  Since you're doing this in the console, you're 
obviously willing to do the work.  :)

/usr/ports # make search key=dbm |grep Path: |grep -i dbm
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/dbmetrix
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/gauche-gdbm
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/gdbm
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/p5-GDBM
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/p5-MLDBM
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/p5-MLDBM-Sync
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/py-gdbm
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/qdbm
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/ruby-gdbm
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/ruby-o_dbm
Path:   /usr/ports/devel/gdbmods
Path:   /usr/ports/mail/bogofilter-qdbm
Path:   /usr/ports/mail/dbmail
Path:   /usr/ports/security/p5-Crypt-xDBM_File
Path:   /usr/ports/textproc/p5-XML-DBMS
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Aaron
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Re: console pim? - what to use to track appointments

[David Brinegar]

Andrew L. Gould wrote:
 Schedule/Calendar - ???  Here's where I'm stumped.  cal will show
 me calendars when I need then; but I don't know what to use to
 keep track of meetings and other appointments.  calendar has lists
 of dates; but doesn't facilitate data entry and the format doesn't
 facilitate various fields of information (date, time, place,
 subject, contact, etc).  Does anyone have any suggestions?

at(1) works okay for me, along with a mailnote script which sends
a one-liner to my inbox or cell phone.

For example:

at 2:30pm
   mailnote meeting at 3pm


You might want wrappers to organize things the way you like.  I have
one to reorganize atq and at -c output so I can read my upcoming
notes or make sure the date is right on a job.  A few times I've
seen at 9am tomorrow turned into 9am two days from now, so it is
definitely funky.

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http://brinegar-computing.com
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