On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:19:41AM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Monday 21 May 2007 21:39:45 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.
Any suggestions anyone?
If this was my project I would write a little XML schema, a bunch of XSLT transforms and a cron job. And then a little bit of mod_python if I wanted a web interface.
If I was really into XML and XSLT I might do the same but they are really not my thing even though I did have to use them at work. I have never felt comfortable with the look/shape of XML as a way of creating software.
Python though is growing on me as a good general purpose way of doing lots of things which is much 'cleaner' than Perl.
Though I do use KDE's PIM software, Kontact, which provides an encapsulating interface to its email client, RSS aggregator, contacts manager, calendar, journal, sticky notes and phone/PDA synchroniser, I don't really use it in the way you describe, but I guess its probably capable of being used for your requirements. It probably doesn't appeal though. I often wonder how KDE ever gets any developers - ask any Linux geek and they'll tell you how evil Qt, Trolltech and KDE are. But have they ever tried it?
Yes, I suspect that KDE's "does everything" approach is not much to my liking.