Calendar Program Suggestions?

[marcmagus]

I think I'm in search of a new calendaring application. gcal, while great, doesn't seem to support the features I really want (or needs a front-end I haven't yet discovered to do so). Here's my feature wishlist:

• Lets me store my data on my own computer. A tool which requires that I give some vendor all my data will lose points. A tool

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[thorog]

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I'm currently using GCal as well (iCal just....doesn't do it for me, for some reason. Also, not as portable), and I agree that there's stuff it needs to do. I have command-line read access (open APIs for the win), but no write, but that doesn't count because I had to make it myself. Additional features I'd like:

• The ability to limit events by "zone" or environment or some similar term. E.g. I can enter dates that university starts and ends, creating a University zone. I can then define events that happen within this zone only (e.g. lectures, group meetings, etc). While this isn't supported explicitly in the iCalendar standard (IIRC), it's easily simulated by the event's (somewhat underused, even on GCal/iCal) repeat properties.
  
• The ability to modify multiple events at once. Sometimes you can't get what you want by repeating an event, and you want five events to all be in the same calendar, in the same location, etc.

These are both things I'm going to be missing in about three days, when I receive my

[marcmagus]

I'm using gcal (or Gcal, according to the man page), not GCal (if by that you mean Google Calendar). It's not my fault Google starts with the same initial letter as GNU and thus creates confusion. It is Google's fault.

gcal offers command-line read trivially (that's what it is), and stores data in a simple rc file. I usually add events by opening that in an editor, but a quick alias would append a new event to the rc for writes.

Wow, your "zone" idea (is it sufficient to think of it as an alias for bounds on a repeat?) is a really clever ui improvement. I like it.

I'd also like to see support for "tags", because I currently think they're the hottest UI feature of the decade.

[thorog]

Ah, right. Yes, I did. 'g' is obviously the new 'i' (much like 'i' was the new 'e') for prefixing software.

The zone is pretty much that - it just determines when an event stops and starts. I get tired of entering the same date for the end of a repeat when I have eight classes to process. And then repeating them for terms 2, 3 and 4.

Tags wouldn't be bad. I could see uses for tags for, say, events other people put on your calendar, tentative events, etc. I currently just used calendars in Google Calendar, since they dictate reminders for events. SMS reminders are the best thing ever, because over here receiving an SMS doesn't cost you a cent.

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