On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:07:31PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:39:45PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
I'm sure I found something like this a while ago but now all I can find is blogs.
I'm after something that's half way between an appointments calendar (or even a PIM) and a diary/journal. I.e. I want a program that allows me to remind myself about things but also allows me to wax lyrical about my doings for the day. Ideally it will allow me to write using my choice of text editor but that's not absolutely essential, it certainly doesn't *have* to have a GUI interface but on the other hand I don't mind if it does. Being able to view the calendar/diary from the web would be a plus but isn't really important.
Any suggestions anyone?
If you have no requirement to share it with anyone else, get a decent paper diary. My siblings bought me Edward Gorey's "The Gashlycrumb Times" Engagement Calendar a couple of years ago and I have to say the user interface is far superior to anything I've found on a computer so far. Plus it's funny, if you like gallows humour.
The one *major* disadvantage of a paper diary for my requirement is that it's not searchable. I want, for example, to be able to find when it was I saw Fred Bloggs and what was that company that I bought some widgets from. It's also much more vulnerable to loss (as long as your computer has a good backup strategy anyway).
Alternatively, have you considered just waxing lyrical in text files in a suitable directory structure?
That is definitely a possibility and it may well be the direction I take. I'd like some sort of interface to the structure though so I can easily select a specific date without having to navigate the structure.