CLI Diary

This is a text based diary, inspired by khal. Diary entries are stored in raw text. You may say C & ncurses are old, I say paper is older..

Usage

1. Set the EDITOR environment variable to your favourite text editor:

   export EDITOR=vim
   

2. Compile (requires ncurses):

   make
   

3. Install the binary (optional):

   sudo make install
   

   By default this will copy the binary to /usr/local/bin. To use a different path prefix, type sudo make --PREFIX=/usr install to use /usr/bin for example. You can uninstall diary with sudo make uninstall.

4. Run the diary, with the folder for the text files as first argument:

   diary ~/.diary
   

   Instead of this, you can also set the environment variable DIARY_DIR to the desired directory. If both an argument and the environment variable are given, the argument takes precedence.

   The text files in this folder will be named 'yyyy-mm-dd'.

5. Use the keypad or VIM-like shortcuts to move between dates:

   e, Enter  Edit the current entry
   d, x      Delete/remove current entry
   t         Jump to today
   s         Jump to specific day
   
   j, down   go forward by 1 week
   k, up     go backward by 1 week
   h, left   go left by 1 day
   l, right  go right by 1 day
   
   g         go to the first date
   G         go to the last date
   
   J         Go forward by 1 month
   K         Go backward by 1 month