I'm not one of those people who use organizers extensively, but I do appreciate a quick and dirty entry into a calendar. The easier it is for me to make an entry, the more effective it is. Since I'm also mostly using the "black screen" called terminal, I also wanted an app (or a collection thereof) that would allow me to do so.

While I was thinking of writing a simple Python script, I've discovered that someone's already done the dirty work for me. Someone, who obviously thinks like me.

When is a simple (hm, rudimentary would be a better word here, I think) organizer for command line warriors. It's concept is so simple it can fit into one sentence: edit the calendar file, and display the schedule for next two weeks. It's so simple there isn't too much to talk about.

However, one thing I missed, even though I wanted just a simple thing. The thing I was missing was a calendar itself. I really didn't feel like calculating things like "what date's the next tuesday?". So I decided to use another tool. This tool is simply called cal, and it displays a (you guessed right!) calendar.

So one alias later I have this:

$ echo "2008 may 20, Ema goes to Aleksinac" >> ~/.when/calendar
$ org

Cal and when combo in action: A very simple command line organizer... simple but effective.

That's more like an organizer, wouldn't you say? Well, that's it. That's how I organize myself.

Oh, and that alias I mentioned... it's this line in .bashrc:

alias org="cal -3m && when"