calcurse VS khal

The Windows CLI is unfriendly to developers, a bit of shoving great-grandpa in the corner (despite its origins in DOS); as such, CLI developers tend not to spend much time investing in Windows-native TUI applications. With WSL, you at least mitigate a lot of that, opening you (OP) to the *nix world of CLI/TUI applications. Within WSL, you (OP) might also investigate calcurse which allows you to associate items like notes with dates. Or check out remind, my favorite, but focused more on complex calendaring rather than journaling (for my journaling, I just have a single text-file)

Hello everyone, I have used node with express but I've started to see many CLI projects like inquirer and I want to make a calcurse clone but don't know how to start, any advice in how can I make a CLI interface like inquirer or calcurse?

Try calcurse.

If you, well, almost borrow your name from calcurse, then shouldn't you highlight the key differences from your rival?

calcurse: fairly complex with events, reminders, notes/todos, as well as the ability to import/export .ics iCal files, customizable layout choices, etc.

There's also calcurse if you like terminal apps.

I use evolution the gnome email client. There is also calcurse, which is a ncurses based calendar with "experimental CalDAV support", I havent used it for too long, as I need an email application anyways and it's alright.

Most folks are used to a pretty visual calendar like Google Calendar or calcurse with wizards for creating events, so entering them in a text-file feels archaic/baroque. But using remind gives me a LOT more power for creating events that do weird things like having my entries modify their text based on presentation or calculations (e.g. birthday events that say "Joe turns 31 in 7 days", adjusting the age each year and giving multiple days of countdown notice), crazy things like having repeating events that shift around conditionally ("trash day is on Thursday, but if there was a holiday earlier in the week, move trash day to Friday").

Interested in checking this out! Is it called calcurse though? Can find one named cursecal.

https://github.com/lfos/calcurse

calcurse a text-based calendar and scheduling application

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I just tried to setup dumb jump, downloaded khal as example project and tried to use `gd` while I'm with the cursor on a method. It always is asking me for a TAGS file, but I don't have any, I mean this is dumb-jump.

I use https://github.com/pimutils/khal ...maybe it would work with WSL?... for calendar and markdown diary (have a script that pulls calendar items, tasks that are due from taskwarrior, and notes from yesterday's "tomorrow" section into each new day's journal/diary entry) via vimwiki.

It is absolutely possible. Use Lynx for web browsing, use TMUX for split screen, use BC for calculator, use KHAL for calendar and of course use RTV for Reddit. :-) Here is a great list of CLI apps: https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps Here are some of my favorites though: - https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/timewarrior - https://github.com/IonicaBizau/idea - https://github.com/jeffkowalski/geeknote - https://github.com/insanum/sncli - https://github.com/visit1985/mdp - https://github.com/astefanutti/decktape - https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli - https://github.com/pimutils/khal - https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ - https://github.com/zquestz/s - https://github.com/yudai/gotty - https://github.com/axiros/terminal_markdown_viewer - https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in - https://github.com/schachmat/wego - https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

Apple iCal <-> vdirsyncer <-> khal <-> khalel

If that's a dead end, I'd look into CLI CALDAV clients that you could script around. Maybe something like khal? http://lostpackets.de/khal/

I tend to use khal in combination with vdirsyncer (which can sync a remote Google Calendar to local iCal files, and vice-versa). However I don't think it can handle all the meeting invite stuff you mention.

I like khal, which stores events in a directory of ics files. Not quite what you were asking for as it's not a single text file. The CLI for displaying, adding, and editing events is pretty nice though.

This looks very interesting. As the original author of khal (another terminal calendar) [1] I love some more competition in this space.

[1] https://github.com/pimutils/khal

I've been using vdirsyncer to keep CalDAV servers in sync. It works with basically everything. Works great with khal but I've always wanted a month or week view so I'm gonna check this out!