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"My contacts list is a text file called contacts.txt. Works on anything. Can be grepped. My calendar is a text file called cal.txt. Works on anything. Can be gr
by tennineten 15y ago
"My contacts list is a text file called contacts.txt. Works on anything. Can be grepped. My calendar is a text file called cal.txt. Works on anything. Can be grepped."
I really like the sound of that. Can you elaborate a bit on the format, or provide a couple of sample lines from each?
- bwarp 15y agoYes - it's very simple: contacts.txt - in order of surname, firstname Surname, FirstName, Primary telephone number with code, Email address so: Joe, Bloggs, 02033345545, joe@bloggs.com I only keep a single number for people, but you could extend it to two numbers if you want. cal.txt - latest dates at top of file: 2012/02/02 16:00+ What to do # time specific event 2012/03/03 --:-- Someone's birthday # all day event When something is done, the line is deleted. If something is not done on the date, it is just left as "overdue" at the top.
- gbog 15y agoSo I guess you don't have Gmail's recipient autocompletion, or you do? This is the killer feature of Gmail for me, with its keyboard shorcuts and search.
- bwarp 15y agoI don't need to search. My inbox (my only folder) is 4 items at the moment. I rarely initiate an email conversation but whe I do it's simply select the addres from the text file and paste with the right mouse button. Mutt has an autocomplete function but TBH I can't be bothered to set it up.
- wwkeyboard 15y agoI do something very similar for my calendar, but it's kept in markdown and instead of deleting the done items I move them under a heading for the date completed(along with any notes about the item). While I'm not required to submit a timesheet for my employment, I find it nice to have a log of my actions. The contacts file sounds interesting, I'll give that a try.
- tennineten 15y agoThanks for the information. Do you enter birthdays every year? Or just use sed or something to update the year? If you delete everything after the date, I guess you never need to refer to old appointments?
- bwarp 15y agoIf it's a birthday, I actually manually add the birthday's next occurence to the appropriate point in the list. It helps keep the dates in mind as well!