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Address Book/Calendar Solutions for the Console?

Posted by Cliff on from the for-those-who-don't-go-gooey dept.

Florian Cramer asks: "There are many good addressbooks/calendars for GNU/Linux (plan, ical, jpilot, kalendar, gnome-calendar, gnome-card, to name only a few), but they all require X11. Does anyone know a decent console-based addressbook/calendaring solution, perhaps even one which can sync its data with Palm Pilots? That would be great for all the vi/mutt/lynx/bash people out there, and welcome for (a) underpowered hardware and (b) future Linux-based keyboard PDAs."

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  1. Emacs by Bazzargh · · Score: 4

    emacs calendar/diary modes, and Jamie Zawinski's Big Brother Database for your rolodex. AFAIK there is sync software for this but as I havent used it now for 3 years I havent been keeping up[1]

    -Baz

    [1] Not because I didnt like it. I miss it today (sob!). However, because of a corporate misdecision our shop was having to switch to outlook mail (non-SMTP) and all that goes with it, so as the head of systems I felt I should switch - users kept reporting problems , but 'cos it didnt affect me I wasnt trying to find fixes hard enough...

  2. /usr/bin/calendar & abook by krismon · · Score: 4

    On my FreeBSD box.. I use /usr/bin/calendar

    It's simple, and it works... it doesn't nag, and everything goes in a human readable text file(it checks for a date on the start of a line and goes from there), you can even run it off cron to email you you're schedule for the day everyday. I don't know if the linux version has as many features as the BSD version, I know the Solaris one sucks...

    I also use abook (an ncurses addressbook program) for my addresses, it exports to mutt,pine,elm,csv, and is pretty easy to navigate.

    Everything is console based and pretty easy to keep track of.