How I fell in love with calendar.txt
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A developer shares their experience adopting calendar.txt, a plain text file for managing calendar events using Unix command-line tools. They demonstrate how simple grep, vim, and bash aliases provide elegant solutions for viewing daily events, editing dates, and handling recurring events—all faster and more reliable than web-based calendar interfaces. The approach offers simplicity, trust, and personal customization through Unix tools, though mobile access remains challenging on proprietary systems like Android.
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Recurring eventsShared events and collaborationSimplifying calendaringTrusting my calendarMobile calendar.txt12 Comments
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