On 21-May-07 20:39:45, 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.
Possibly a bit off-target for your purposes, but you could consider 'plan'. See:
http://me.in-berlin.de/~bitrot/plan.html
This is primarily a calendar and reminder utility: You get an on-screen monthly calendar (with various additional view formats: "Day": the next 7 days in 7 columns, each running from say 08:00 to 20:00; "Week": similar to "Date" transposed but compact; "Year": an array of calendar days for the year with days highlighted when something is happening; etc.). You can schedule an "alarm" to flash up an xterm with a reminder, and/or send you a reminder email, or execute a script, at preset intervals prior to the event.
That's the "reminder" side. But it also lets you associate with any calendar entry a text, called a "message" (which can be long) about it. For example, if I'm going to a seminar or a meeting, I may cut&paste the full info from the announcement into this (Date, time, title, summary, venue, about-the-speaker, how to get there, plus aything else that occurs to me). The "message" will be emailed to you if you set this up as part of the "alarm" mechanism.
If you click on the day with the entry, you get a list of entries for that day; click on the "message" button for the entry you want, and you get the "message" window which you can edit (or simply read).
I think the editor is what you get -- I'm not aware of a choice in this respect (but could be wriong).
Ted.
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