Re: Calendaring?

[Oliver Kiddle]

Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >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.

There are a number of tools that can work with iCalendar
files on the filesystem. I would recommend using vdirsyncer
(https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer) to sync these with a server -
either something self-hosted like baikal, nextcloud or radicale or
Google/Apple if you must. For command-line viewing there is khal (and
khard for contacts), neither of which I'm especially enamoured with. As
seems typical of stuff written in Python, they seem to regularly break
following upgrades and spew out stack traces instead of sane error
messages but they basically do the job. vdirsyncer tends to be solid
despite also being Python.

> Since you mentioned it ... what do other people use for password
> management?  I ended up using a solution called "Master Password" which
> is an open-source password generator which is now called "Spectre"
> (https://spectre.app) and has a reasonable paid app for mobile devices.
> But I am wondering what other people do.

If I understand their website, it looks like the principle is perhaps
similar to what I used to do - use a password generator that combines
a blob of encrypted secret data with the name of the site. The big
advantage being that no syncing is necessary after the initial setup
because the algorthm will regenerate the same password. A disadvantage
is needing to track an extra epoch number in those cases where I need a
new password for the same site. And being a custom solution, it didn't
run on a mobile. I still use that for creating passwords but also run
vaultwarden along with the bitwarden mobile app.

Oliver