[GRLUG] Linux PIM

Patrick Goupell patrick at upmerchants.com
Wed Feb 29 17:37:31 EST 2012


Obviously I cannot reproduce everything a pim can do from a gui in a 
cli, so what ideas would you have for a command?

pimcli --add "what?? contact/note/task/???"  --whatelse  "required by 
whatelse"   --???     ???

Think about it.  What is practical.


On 02/29/2012 05:22 PM, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 04:37:33PM -0500, Roger Roelofs wrote:
>    
>> I vote for the command line too.  I'm currently using todo.txt along
>> with punch for time tracking.  They both work with plain text files
>> that I can put on my Dropbox for easy access from my phone or
>> wherever.  It doesn't do anything else a PIM would do.  PIM features
>> accessible form the command line would be killer.  Among other things
>> it would make integration with other apps much simpler.
>>
>> Thanks for tilting at windmills for our benefit!
>>      
> There are CLI calendar apps available, but they are kludgy and difficult
> to use.  A simple calendar app that integrates well with a contact list
> and, say, mutt (!) would be killer.
>    

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