I've been thinking about the combination of tools/applications needed to have PIM functionality at the console. This would allow me to use the same software on my desktop (FreeBSD) and NEC Mobilepro (NetBSD).
Syncing - rsync should provide efficient syncing of email if I use the maildir email format. Since the address book is in one file, I'll have to be careful about where/when I make entries. I can script the rsync activities for ease of use.
Email - mutt, fetchmail, msmtp and procmail can handle the email functions.
Address book - abook can provide the address book and works with mutt.
Schedule/Calendar - ??? Here's where I'm stumped. cal will show me calendars when I need then; but I don't know what to use to keep track of meetings and other appointments. calendar has lists of dates; but doesn't facilitate data entry and the format doesn't facilitate various fields of information (date, time, place, subject, contact, etc). Does anyone have any suggestions?
You could probably cobble something together built on cron, and something like gdbm. Since you're doing this in the console, you're obviously willing to do the work. :)
/usr/ports # make search key=dbm |grep Path: |grep -i dbm Path: /usr/ports/databases/dbmetrix Path: /usr/ports/databases/gauche-gdbm Path: /usr/ports/databases/gdbm Path: /usr/ports/databases/p5-GDBM Path: /usr/ports/databases/p5-MLDBM Path: /usr/ports/databases/p5-MLDBM-Sync Path: /usr/ports/databases/py-gdbm Path: /usr/ports/databases/qdbm Path: /usr/ports/databases/ruby-gdbm Path: /usr/ports/databases/ruby-o_dbm Path: /usr/ports/devel/gdbmods Path: /usr/ports/mail/bogofilter-qdbm Path: /usr/ports/mail/dbmail Path: /usr/ports/security/p5-Crypt-xDBM_File Path: /usr/ports/textproc/p5-XML-DBMS
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