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Re:Calendar.txt by ndegruchy on Monday February 24, 2025 @09:57AM (#43160285)
I like this. It's a lot like Emacs `diary` system. Though, you can group multiple events under one day heading. I will say that I like how `grep`-able this is. As long as you know the rules, it's pretty easy to parse. You could probably whip up an alarm system in bash and cron/systemd and let it alert you like all those big-box programs do.
Re:Calendar.txt by oneeyedpigeon on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:14AM (#43203486)
Exactly. Some people are looking at the format and thinking "well, this doesn't do much" but they're missing the point: it's a plain text format that plays very well with other common tools such that 'doing more' is trivial.
Re:Calendar.txt by tero on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:02AM (#43204700)
Such an alarm system would be interesting (and even sounds feasible), even though I don't use reminders myself.