On 09.12.14 17:49, Scott Junner wrote:
Yeah. I started writing it because I realise I could wait for ever for someone else to build me the thing I want and make it work the way I want it to work.
It's lotsa fun to write the "perfect app" from scratch. It's sure to have a market of at least one - maybe more. A diversity of needs and skillsets ensures a multiplicity of awesome organisers, though. For some it might be a (dead tree) notebook or Post-It notes - the batteries never go flat, and the display works wherever your eyes do. They can import anything a pencil can handle. For me, any *nix variant is my awesome organiser, with vim as the core app. And since cal doesn't do look-ahead, I have a script which warns me repeatedly in the fortnight up to anniversaries. For non-calendar stuff, a variety of subject files are individually opened with vim, on a 2 or 3 letter alias, so I don't have to remember a pathname. What commercial product would "organise" my register of Serrated Tussock (an atrocious agricultural pest) infestations on our 3 sq. km farm - date & how many plants found on each inspection of each site over the last half decade? (Trends are important - for several years, numbers were increasing.) My contacts database is a text file, with one line of awk aliased to the command 't' for searching. It has followed me through 18 years at one company, 12 at another, and 6 years since. Different folding strategies on the various files present an initially compressed view when editing, and a simple heading/keyword strategy streamlines searching. So, in short: Why learn the confining rat-run of some "app", when linux allows us to do anything we want, using the skills we already have? (And allows us to avoid GUIs to boot.) Erik -- When you find that you like Ubuntu you can then install it on your HD. You can keep your XP system if you want to. This is called Duel booting. - Douglas E Knapp, on ubuntu-users.