calendarender

and also calendarchive

These are 2 scripts for calendaring in plantext files. calendar.txt shows the current day at the top and continues down as far as the number of months you have rendered.

calendar_archive.txt contains all the days before current day.

It looks like this:

☼ sun nov 29 water plants coop fed potluck

◯ mon nov 30 recycling

———— December ————

☼ tue dec 01 reading group

☼ wed dec 02 1pm appointment

⇃◌ thu dec 03 open hours at lab

installation

1. clone or download the repo.

2. configure calendarender by opening the file in your texteditor of choice and modify the line:

calendarFile="/Users/YOU/WHEREYOURNOTESARE/calendar.txt"

to say where your calendar file is. This must be the absolute path to your calendar file. If you don't have one just make an empty txt file there to start.

You might also like to configure recurring events. There is SERIOUS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT in this. It really ought to be in a separate config file. BUT ALAS, as it is, recurring events are hardcoded. So, if you have things that happen weekly or monthly and you want them to be auto-rendered, you'll need to modify this code block:

  #every sunday
  if [ "$dayOfWeek" = "Sun" ]; then echo "water plants">> $calendarFile; sunday=$(($sunday+1)); fi
  #second sunday
  if [ "$dayOfWeek" = "Sun" ] && [ "$sunday" -eq 2 ]; then echo "example potluck">> $calendarFile; fi
  #3rd sunday
  if [ "$dayOfWeek" = "Sun" ] && [ "$sunday" -eq 3 ]; then echo "example potluck on third sunday">> $calendarFile; fi
  #last sunday
  if [ "$(date -v1d -v+"$tooFarNum"m -v-1d -v-sun +%a-%b-%d)" = "$(date -v1d -v+"$1"m -v+"$PLACEINMONTH"d +%a-%b-%d)" ] && [ "$dayOfWeek" = "Sun" ]; then echo "last sunday of th>

Anytime something is echoed it goes in the file. Make sure not to get rid of the section sunday=$(($sunday+1)) because that is how the program keeps track of which sunday (etc) we're on.

3. configure calendarchive

calendarFile="/Users/YOU/YOURNOTESFOLDER/calendar.txt" calendarchive="/Users/YOU/YOURNOTESFOLDER/calendar_archive.txt" make sure both those exist at least as blank files.

you might need to chmod +x each of the scripts to make sure they're executable.

4. You can now just run them with sh calendarchive.sh or sh calendarender.sh' but they're easier to use if they're in your path. Copy the scripts somewhere like ~/binand addexport PATH=$PATH:~/binto~/.bashrc`

usage

calendarender

calendarender takes one argument and that's the number of months in the future you'd like to render. So say it's currently a day in November and I want to add the days in January to my calendar.txt. I would run calendarender 2. It'll print to the terminal as well as to the file.

calendarchive

if you run calendarchive as it is it will remove all days from calendar.txt that are before the current day and append them to the bottom of calendar_archive.txt. If it's late at night but before midnight you can run calendarchive 1 and it'll also archive today.

you could cron calendarchive to have it automatically run but personally I keep all kinds of notes and things in my calendar and don't want to lose track of anything. So I manually run calendarchive.