console pim? - what to use to track appointments

[Aaron]

"Andrew L. Gould" <algould at datawok.com> wrote:
> I've been thinking about the combination of tools/applications needed to have 
> PIM functionality at the console.  This would allow me to use the same 
> software on my desktop (FreeBSD) and NEC Mobilepro (NetBSD).
> 
> Syncing - rsync should provide efficient syncing of email if I use the maildir 
> email format.  Since the address book is in one file, I'll have to be careful 
> about where/when I make entries.  I can script the rsync activities for ease 
> of use.
> 
> Email - mutt, fetchmail, msmtp and procmail can handle the email functions.
> 
> Address book - abook can provide the address book and works with mutt.
> 
> Schedule/Calendar - ???  Here's where I'm stumped.  cal will show me calendars 
> when I need then; but I don't know what to use to keep track of meetings and 
> other appointments.  calendar has lists of dates; but doesn't facilitate data 
> entry and the format doesn't facilitate various fields of information (date, 
> time, place, subject, contact, etc).  Does anyone have any suggestions?

You could probably cobble something together built on cron, and 
something like gdbm.  Since you're doing this in the console, you're 
obviously willing to do the work.  :)

/usr/ports # make search key=dbm |grep Path: |grep -i dbm
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/dbmetrix
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/gauche-gdbm
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/gdbm
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/p5-GDBM
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/p5-MLDBM
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/p5-MLDBM-Sync
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/py-gdbm
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/qdbm
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/ruby-gdbm
Path:   /usr/ports/databases/ruby-o_dbm
Path:   /usr/ports/devel/gdbmods
Path:   /usr/ports/mail/bogofilter-qdbm
Path:   /usr/ports/mail/dbmail
Path:   /usr/ports/security/p5-Crypt-xDBM_File
Path:   /usr/ports/textproc/p5-XML-DBMS

-- 
Aaron
aaron at justaaron.com