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Sun, 26 Mar 2006

Dear lazyweb,

I'm looking for a calendaring application with the following features:

1. Must have a (limited) command line interface. I want to be able to view my appointments of the day in plain text format, so that I can put that in my .profile; it'd be nice if it allows me to view my appointments on any random date, but that isn't required. Moreover, when someone sends me a meeting invitation, I want to be able to pipe the ical file into something which puts it in my calendar, with optionally also sending an email to the person who sent me the invitation that I'm accepting it (optionally, as in, it must have the feature, and it should allow me to decide whether to send the mail on a case-by-case basis, not as in it would be nice if the feature existed.)
   More command line features are nice, but not necessary.
2. Must have the ability to export ical files to a text file on my local hard disk; must not require me to set up a server with some weird login scheme and ditto protocol so that I can please put my webcalendar somewhere—and no, I won't sign up for one of those "free" webcalendar services. I'll put it online myself, thank you very much.
   This requirement rules out evolution, unless I missed some plugin somewhere (I don't think so).
3. Must have basic calendaring functionality. I.e., I should somehow be able to get an overview of my appointments of any given day, to get a weekly, monthly or yearly overview, to print out things, etc.
4. Must not require ages to start up. This, definately, rules out evolution. When I have a phone call, I want to be able to see within a few seconds whether I'm available at any given time.
5. The ability to synchronize my calendar with my cellphone somehow would be nice, but isn't absolutely required. I'm willing to jump through a number of hoops here. Note that gnokii supports my cellphone.

Suggestions are welcome.

/en/lazyweb

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