Aw, that's not what I hoped it would be. An actual file-based calendar UI is a neat idea, where you can (for instance) echo into a file to create a calendar event on the command line.
It would be cool to see a filesystem layer present a tree of ICS files where editing one also updated your various API-based web calendars.
Could one use the txtai python libe to be told to train on the temporal relationships between events that pass through it as an fastAPI endpoint to a calender... then as the events head to whatever is holding them in the calendar - txtai is training and indexing, first on temporal notes, then on context. so you ould easly as it to give you a
"Show all the social events that happen on wednesdays with a dress code"
(but it learns the nature of certain events, when they occur and social clues around what /who /wheres are typically occuring...
"This venue typically holds events on W F S and the clientelle is typicalaly this, attendance that, rsvps x, cost ~$$"
I don't have more than 10 entries per week. Partly because I prefer real work over meetings, so I work at a place that does not have a lot of meetings. And once you don't have many, it's easier to remember other appointments, no need to use a calendar for everything. So even if this had been a useful mapping of calendar entries into a directory tree, I would not have felt an urge to use it.
$ cat /cal/2024/08/04/events
Something like:
4h sun: 1500 dentist's appointment, 1800 dinner with friends
The initial file was autogenerated with a 10-line Python script.
You can have variations on this, like allowing multiple rows per day, one row per event.
I also used to keep an unstructured "journal.txt" file, where notes were separated by two blank lines, and you could reference topics (like #toRead) and dates (like #4h24) with #, like social media hashtags.
$ cat /cal/nexttues<TAB>
$ cat /cal/2024/08/13/
$ cat /cal/nextweek<TAB>
$ cat /cal/2024/w32/
$ grep -ir somebody /cal/2023/07/
/cal/2023/07/12/events:13:00-14:00 Lunch with somebodyA couple of weeks ago I was surprised and annoyed that adding an event with description "10:30-11:00 Pointless Meeting" no longer scheduled my Pointless Meeting. Tried again very carefully. Wasn't working. Worked again the next day. Did anyone else experience this?
I can't wait for them to feed my description to an LLM to generate the event. "Schedule drinks at 7 at the bar behind the office next Tuesday. Invite my favourite colleagues and their teammates. Make them curious but not suspicious."
Because I want it!
I reckon, yeah.
From this article[1] writing a FUSE filesystem doesn't look that hard.
I might give it a go this weekend. Assuming I remember!
[1] https://blog.trieoflogs.com/2021-05-25-fuse-filesystem-go/
$ ls /cal/2024/08/04
$ cat /cal/2024/08/04/*
Explain how it is better vs having a simple cli that parse args and store that into SQLite.
access - for discovery and poking around you won't need a dedicated tool, just `cat` or `less` or `vim`