Re: Calendaring?

[Ken Hornstein]

>I'm an old Unix system admin command line type, and I love MH/nmh.
>
>I let the Mac and PC worlds distract me for a bit, but I'm really
>tired of dealing with Calendar, Outlook, and the like, especially when
>Microsoft is threating to change the user interface again.  Is there
>a calendaring program that uses a similar structure to nmh behind the
>scenes?  If one doesn't exist, I might have to make one of my own.

I'm pretty much in the same boat myself.

However ... for _me_ at least the value to a calendar and a reminder
list is having it on all devices so you can add events when you are out;
e.g., adding your next checkup when you are _at_ the dentist and having
it updated everywhere is to me the whole point.  That pretty much means
you're stuck doing some kind of calendar server.  You can run your own
but when I looked at that they had a hellish dependency tree, and of
course running your OWN server in the modern Internet age is a huge pain
unless you pay for a hosting company (and as Conrad notes even that
doesn't guarantee it will work with everything).

I know people that use Google Calendar with some success, and there are
existing command-line tools that interface with that and as far as I
can tell that interfaces with all major client software.  I personally
use the Calendar app on MacOS X, as it is easy to put calendar events
from nmh into it and seems to have reasonable authentication and
sharing capabilities (this only works well if you already use MacOS X
of course).  The Reminders app on MacOS X also deals with events as
standard iCalendar format events (with some MacOS X-specific extension
fields) so you can interface with it; all of the same caveats about
drinking MacOS X Kool-Aid apply.

--Ken