Full featured calendar solution in plain text format.
The Events.txt plain text calendar file has the following format (example):
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May
01/05/2022 Sun | + Event
______
02/05/2022 Mon |
03/05/2022 Tue |
04/05/2022 Wed | + 1200 May the force be with you
+ 1230 More events added on new lines to improve readability
+ 1300 May the force stay with you
+ 1800 Hopefully it is still there
05/05/2022 Thu |
06/05/2022 Fri | + 0600 Is the force there?
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etc.
#repeatingYearly
04/05 - 1200 May the force be with you (this is an event (like a birthday) which repeats every year)
This concept has been inspired by this amazing post on the internet. Feel free to change the format as you please.
Every Events starts with a + character, in order to quickly scan through all events just using search.
Repeating events should be added below #repeatingYearly and start with a dash (-). The script maintain.py adds these events automatically, whilst "filling" the Events.txt file up with additional days (can be defined in script).
Note: Until now, #repeatingYearly assumes, that those events repeat each year. The script expects only day/month format. The recommended practise is to always keep repeating events inside #repeatingYearly. This way, they wont get "lost" after a few years.
The maintain.py script does not get rid of past days. It is up to the user, what to do with past events.
To make your own Events.txt from scratch:
python3 make.py > Events.txt
This generates an empty Events.txt. Open, view and edit with any text editor, on any device, using the convention above.
In order to maintain (=fillup with new days, take care of repeating events) your calendar run:
python3 maintain.py
It assumes that your file is called Events.txt.
I wrote a blog post about Events.txt on my website, with a lot more information about it, highlighting some usage scenario's etc..