calcure 1.6.0

Modern TUI calendar and task manager

Calcure

Minimalist TUI calendar and task manager with customizable interface. Manages your events and tasks, displays birthdays from your abook, and can import events and tasks from calcurse.

Features

• Vim keys
• Operation with fewest key presses possible
• Todo list with subtasks and timers ⌚
• Birthdays of your abook contacts
• Import of events and tasks from calcurse and taskwarrior
• Icons according to the name ✈ ⛷ ⛱
• Privacy mode ••••• to obfuscate events and tasks
• Plain text database in your folder for cloud sync
• Customizable colors, icons, and other features
• Resize and mobile friendly
• Week can start on any day
• Current weather ⛅

Installation

On Arch Linux, Manjaro, Artix and other arch-based distributions

The package calcure is available in AUR. Install it with yay -S calcure or with another AUR helper.

On other Linux distributions

Just copy the calcure file into a directory with your binaries and make it executable. For example,:

git clone https://github.com/anufrievroman/calcure
cp calcure/calcure $HOME/.local/bin
chmod =rwx $HOME/.local/bin/calcure
pip install holidays

On Windows

1. Install Windows Terminal app from the app store
2. Install python 3.x also from the app store (if you just type python in the Windows Terminal app it will offer you to install)
3. Install a few libraries by typing in the Windows Terminal pip install holidays windows-curses
4. Download this repository and extract the calcure file somewhere, for this example we'll use Documents folder.
5. Now you can finally run it by typing in the Windows Terminal python $HOME\Documents\calcure (you can set up a shortcut for this command)

Dependencies

To run, it only requires python 3. On Linux and MacOS, you should have it by default, but if you don't, install python package from your standard repository.

To display holidays, you also need to instal holidays library as pip install holidays.

Usage

Run calcure in your terminal.

User arguments

-c - Start on the calendar page (default)

-j - Start on the journal page

-h - Start on the help page

-p - Start in the privacy mode (text is obfuscated as •••••)

-v - Print the version and exit

--folder=FOLDERNAME - Use datafiles (events and tasks) stored in a specific folder. For example, if you want to have separate databases for work and for personal things, you can start as calcure --folder=$HOME/.calcure/work or calcure --folder=$HOME/.calcure/personal. The same effect can basically be achived with the --config argument, as explained below.

--config=CONFIGFILE.ini - Use specific config file instead of the default one. For example, if you want to separate not only datafiles, like in the previous example, but other settings too, you can run program with alternative config as calcure --config=$HOME/.config/calcure/config2.ini. If the specified config file does not exist, it will be created with default settings.

Keybindings

Besides keybindings listed below, various vim-style keybinding (ZZ, ZQ etc) and dedicated buttons (home etc) are supported as well.

General

space · Switch between calendar and tasks

* · Toggle privacy mode

? · Show keybindings

q · quit

Calendar view

n,j,l,↓ · Next month

p,h,k,↑ · Previous month

a · Add an event

A · Add a recurring event

i · Mark/unmark an event as important

d,x · Delete an event

e · Edit an event

g · Go to selected day

C · Import events from Calcurse

G - return to current month

Tasks view

a · Add a task

A · Add a subtask

v · Mark a task as done

V · Mark all tasks as done

u · Unmark a task

U · Unmark all tasks

i · Mark a task as important

I · Mark all tasks as important

d · Delete a task and all its subtasks

D · Delete all tasks

t · Start / pause timer for a task

T · Remove a timer

m · Move a task

s · Toggle between task and subtask

e · Edit a task

C · Import tasks from Calcurse

W · Import tasks from Taskwarrior

Configuration

On the first run, it will create a configuration file at .config/calcure/config.ini

You can edit parameters and colors in the config.ini file. Here is an example config (don't forget to change username):

[Parameters]
folder_with_datafiles = /home/username/.config/calcure
calcurse_todo_file = /home/username/.local/share/calcurse/todo
calcurse_events_file = /home/username/.local/share/calcurse/apts
taskwarrior_folder = /home/username/.task
default_view = calendar
birthdays_from_abook = Yes
show_keybindings = Yes
privacy_mode = No
show_weather = Yes
weather_city = 
show_day_names = Yes
minimal_today_indicator = Yes
minimal_days_indicator = Yes
minimal_weekend_indicator = Yes
cut_titles_by_cell_length = No
ask_confirmations = Yes
use_unicode_icons = Yes
show_current_time = No
show_holidays = Yes
start_week_day = 1
refresh_interval = 1
event_icon = •
privacy_icon = •
today_icon = •
birthday_icon = ★
holiday_icon = ☘️
hidden_icon = ...
done_icon = ✔
todo_icon = •
important_icon = ‣
timer_icon = ⌚
show_journal_header = Yes
journal_header = JOURNAL

[Colors]
color_today = 2
color_events = 4
color_days = 7
color_day_names = 4
color_weekends = 1
color_weekend_names = 1
color_hints = 7
color_prompts = 7
color_confirmations = 1
color_birthdays = 1
color_holidays = 2
color_todo = 7
color_done = 6
color_title = 4
color_important = 1
color_timer = 2
color_timer_paused = 7
color_time = 7
color_weather = 2

[Dialogues]
calendar_hint = Space · Tasks   n/p · Change month   a · Add event   ? · All keybindings
todo_hint = Space · Calendar   a · Add   v · Done   i · Important   ? · All keybindings

[Event icons]
travel = ✈
plane = ✈
voyage = ✈
flight = ✈
airport = ✈
trip = 🏕
vacation = ⛱
holiday = ⛱
day-off = ⛱
hair = ✂
barber = ✂
beauty = ✂
nails = ✂
game = ♟
match = ♟
play = ♟
interview = 🎙️
conference = 🎙️
hearing = 🎙️
date = ♥
concert = ♪
dance = ♪
music = ♪
rehersal = ♪
call = 🕻
phone = 🕻
zoom = 🕻
deadline = ⚑
over = ⚑
finish = ⚑
end = ⚑
doctor = ✚
dentist = ✚
medical = ✚
hospital = ✚
party = ☘
bar = ☘
museum = ⛬
meet = ⛬
talk = ⛬
sport = ⛷
gym = 🏋
training = ⛷
email = ✉
letter = ✉

When configuring colors, the numbers indicate standard colors of your terminal and usually mean:

1 - red, 2 - green, 3 - yellow, 4 - blue, 5 - magenta, 6 - cyan, 7 - white

Troubleshooting

• If you cannot install the program using proposed commands, try manually coping calcure file on your computer, making it executable (via file properties) and running it from terminal ./calcure.
• If your terminal shows empty squares insted of icons, probably it does not support unicode. In this case, in config set: use_unicode_icons = No.
• Weather widget slows down launch of the program and requires internet. If that is a problem, switch weather off in config: show_weather = No.
• If weather is incorrect, set your city in config weather_city = Tokyo. By default, this setting is empty and program tries to detect your city automatically.

Contribution and donations

If you wish to contribute, feel free to open issues or propose PRs. Particularly, you are welcome to contribute on the topics of file encryption, sycing with popular calendar services, and translations. For big changes, please open an issue to discuss first. If you'd like to support the development, consider donations.