recfiles [1] are a sort of poor man's plaintext database that you can edit with any text editor. I found manually entering the data mildly annoying and repetiti

recfiles [1] are a sort of poor man's plaintext database that you can edit with any text editor. I found manually entering the data mildly annoying and repetitive, but visidata [2] supports the format, so I've been meaning to learn to use that for easier data entry and for tabular visualization. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/recutils.html#Introduction https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/recutils.html#I... [2] https://www.visidata.org/ https://www.visidata.org/ Bonus: A nice concise intro that someone wrote last week: https://chrismanbrown.gitlab.io/28.html https://chrismanbrown.gitlab.io/28.html