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By: Retro without a cause: PC as a diary « Motho ke motho ka botho

Retro without a cause: PC as a diary « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:35:03 +0000

[...] This comment set something loose though. It’s true: If you wanted to keep a blog for your own purposes, as an electronic diary, perhaps in a closet somewhere, an old machine might be a viable candidate. [...]

By: CorkyAgain

CorkyAgain — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:12:00 +0000

dot as a front-end for mind-mapping? interesting idea!

By: mark

mark — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:58:44 +0000

I think you might like TaskWarrior:
http://taskwarrior.org/projects/show/taskwarrior/

By: ymra

ymra — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:49:14 +0000

I have been using the the script at this link and it works well. I have been using it with gedit but it should work with any text editor. It creates a text file with todays date as the file name.

http://www.marcelgagne.com/daily_journal.html

By: keithpeter

keithpeter — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:05:57 +0000

graphviz includes the command line program called dot which can compile markup in text files into PS or bitmap files with diagrams.

http://www.graphviz.org/

not sure if that was what you were after, its half the battle anyway if you have some kind of dvi viewer on your Xless system.

By: CorkyAgain

CorkyAgain — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:32:57 +0000

I use the local webserver for lots of other things too. So the overhead cost is spread out over several different projects. Just like vim and the webbrowser are. The only thing unique to my journaling solution is the blog compiler, and even that can be amortized if you also publish a blog for the world at large — like kmandla does.

By: Evaryont

Evaryont — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:18:08 +0000

Personally, I’d do the same – except avoid the overhead of running a local web server. Instead, just running some ‘markdown compiler’ (or VimWiki compiler?) to index the resulting html files.

Then elinks/vimperator/etc.

By: CorkyAgain

CorkyAgain — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:05:46 +0000

I think the most elegant solution to the journaling problem is to use any of the numerous blogging programs.

For example:

- Use vim to create a new journal entry. It can use markdown or textile syntax.
- Submit the journal entries to a blog compiler, e.g. chronicle or blosxom.
- Serve up the journal/blog as part of your localhost website, using your webserver of choice. Apache, Hiawatha, lighttpd, etc.
- View them in your web browser of choice. elinks, firefox, whatever.

Nice separation of concerns. Each tool does one thing and does it well. No tool tries to do it all. Very Unix-y

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:57:29 +0000

almost forgot…
id3v2 is for writing tags, use it in conjunction with id3info (reading tags).

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:52:51 +0000

Re: mp3 tagger,

id3v2 http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/
a command line editor for id3 tags

I mainly tend to use this scripts.

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As you mentioned Scroogle I’ll take the opportunity of posting ensure that you are aware that DuckDuckgo now has a couple of ECMAScript free pages that work well with text only browsers
http://duckduckgo.com/html
http://duckduckgo.com/lite