>I'm an old Unix system admin command line type, and I love MH/nmh. > >I let the Mac and PC worlds distract me for a bit, but I'm really >tired of dealing with Calendar, Outlook, and the like, especially when >Microsoft is threating to change the user interface again. Is there >a calendaring program that uses a similar structure to nmh behind the >scenes? If one doesn't exist, I might have to make one of my own.
I'm pretty much in the same boat myself. However ... for _me_ at least the value to a calendar and a reminder list is having it on all devices so you can add events when you are out; e.g., adding your next checkup when you are _at_ the dentist and having it updated everywhere is to me the whole point. That pretty much means you're stuck doing some kind of calendar server. You can run your own but when I looked at that they had a hellish dependency tree, and of course running your OWN server in the modern Internet age is a huge pain unless you pay for a hosting company (and as Conrad notes even that doesn't guarantee it will work with everything). I know people that use Google Calendar with some success, and there are existing command-line tools that interface with that and as far as I can tell that interfaces with all major client software. I personally use the Calendar app on MacOS X, as it is easy to put calendar events from nmh into it and seems to have reasonable authentication and sharing capabilities (this only works well if you already use MacOS X of course). The Reminders app on MacOS X also deals with events as standard iCalendar format events (with some MacOS X-specific extension fields) so you can interface with it; all of the same caveats about drinking MacOS X Kool-Aid apply. --Ken