The format allows for variable granularity and ranges. If Grandma were visiting for a week, it would be fine:
2021-02-20 w07
2012-02-20 w07 Mon-Fri Grandma is visiting
I don't think the creator ever suggested for one minute that this is a calendar for "most people"! Most people don't use Linux, macOS, or a command line.
> sorting by date must be done manually, my god.
| sort
I use +plustags for multiday and recurring events. So for each line +grandma is visiting, I would add the tag +grandma.
I take similar approach with my courses, +tt for pentesting (from the word in Finnish). I found that for me, creating and validating recurring and multiday events was easier for me. Of course, your mileage may vary.
Smikhanov, you found copy pasting challenging. For me, copy pasting from some dedicated calendar software was a challenge. Copy-pasting with calendar .txt makes it easier for me to keep date, week number, weekday and the event together. And your comment on paper planners was on the spot, I wanted to catch some of their benefits, transparency and reliability with calendar.txt.
I believe software is a form of literacy, not engineering. And I believe everyone should be literate it brings great benefits socially and individually
And if this works for him/her it’s a calendar on a piece of paper stuck to the fridge. Great, it works for them and some people might find it good for them too
But yeah.
“One day I will get organisssseed”
- one line per event, so good luck finding multi-day events like “Grandma is visiting”;
- rigid metadata (dates, week numbers, weekdays) stored right next to the editable data (events), so copy-pasting errors are inevitable;
- the most important feature of the real calendar software (reminders) is thrown out;
- grepping is really not how most people interact with a calendar.
If you’re ready to ditch reminders, attachments, locations, use the paper diary planner. At least it won’t let you screw the dates with botched copy-paste.
Update: also, sorting by date must be done manually, my god.