What is it

Application for stoic meditation.

Its goal is to help practice stoicism by:

providing quotations
allowing user to add own quotations
recording user's thoughts (notes) related to those quotations

Source of quotes

Quotes in English taken from kidadl.com
Quotes in Polish taken from: rosnijwsile.pl

Main view

Usage

Providing quotations: read command

Command read in read/ directory reads standard input formated as a sequence of quote and author (in separate lines) separated by a newline. The quote is expected to be enclosed in double quotes. The author is expected to start with hyphen ("-").

Usage: ./read/read -dbpath quotes.db < sayings.txt

Example contents of expected input

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
-Epitectus

Another quote
-Author

Reading random stoic quotation

Command quote in quote/ directory prints random quote to stdout.

Usage:

$ ./quote/quote quotes.db

Result:

[karma@tpd|~/d/g/s/quote]  (web) λ ./quote ../quotes.db
The best answer to anger is silence. Agreed. But nature set a limit on that — as it did on eating and drinking
Marcus Aurelius
[karma@tpd|~/d/g/s/quote]  (web) λ

browse command

Command browse in browse/ directory starts local http server on port 5000 and allows to browse quotes, view the list of quotes and record user's thoughts.