A flexible tool for keeping track of what you read, when you read, how you read, all while being a hand-writable text format.
book-mode is a CLI. It might at some point also be an emacs mode,
depending on how passionately I feel about that (PRs welcome 😬)
book-mode is written in Rust and can be built with cargo.
$ cargo build --releasebook-mode fundamentally only parses text files. These can either be
written by you, the user, or at a later point also the CLI. Each .books
file contains several sections that use indentation to differentiate between
keys and values in a very simple way. Headers use special indentation that's
obviously distinguishable from entries. Here's an example.
Some Title 2017
Genre: Science Fiction
ISBN: 1234-56789-123
Pages: 420
Another Title 2017-2018
Genre: Political fiction
ISBN: 4321-98765-321
Pages: 666
As you can see book-mode can also take into account that some books will be
started in one year and finished in another. When generating graphs, books
that span multiple years will be counted as 3/4 for both years, to make the
graphs look as natural as possible. For raw numbers, it counts as 1 for both
years because a book was indeed read, just not finished in time.
book-mode is free software, licensed under the "GPL-3" or later.