Terminal Based Organization Systems

Josh · August 26, 2019, 3:30am

I currently use Org Mode for note taking, but I’ve been wondering about switching to a similar system that uses a collection of custom scripts and command line tools.

Has anyone tried these tools or know of other similar ones??

To-do lists: Taskbook or Taskwarrior
Notes: vim + markdown
Capture templates for notes: bash aliases or simple scripts to create dynamic filenames
Table editing: there is a table plugin for Vim
Calendar: something like calcurse or gcalcli
Export to any format: pandoc

Edit: there is a discussion about calendars at the link below:

Josh · August 26, 2019, 3:36am

A post about Taskwarrior:
https://blog.djy.io/taskwarrior-where-have-you-been-all-my-life/

bdjewkes · August 26, 2019, 4:12pm

I’d enjoy a command line tool that has good interop with org-mode (ideally it would just call into elisp-- is such thing practical?). org+agenda+refile+capture is a pretty solid combo, but I also spend a lot of time in my terminal.

Maybe I’ll do some research later today.

Josh · August 27, 2019, 5:37pm

I’m not sure. There is a HN discussion here.

Taskwarrior has a hooks system, but I haven’t looked closely at it yet.
https://taskwarrior.org/docs/hooks_guide.html

I’m in the very early stage of trying it and don’t know all the features yet.

Josh · August 29, 2019, 4:30am

I found this script to send Taskwarrior notifications in Linux, but I haven’t tried it yet.

#!/bin/bash

task status:pending tags.hasnt:notified due.before:now+10h     export |  
jq -r ".[].description" |  
while IFS= read -r line  
do  
   notify-send 'A task is due in less than 10h' "$line"
done  
task status:pending tags.hasnt:notified due.before:now+10h modify +notified