#plainText

2025-06-20

@winterschon For other favorites:

Calendar: I love remind(1), a CLI calendar that is more powerful than any other calendar I've ever used. It's a little rough sharing events externally or importing external events (I see you CalDAV note), but for our household, it's great, and I wrote up a detailed blog post² on how I use it (it's a little out of date now, but still works).

Finances: I track mine in ledger(1), largely compatible with hledger(1). There's also BeanCount with its web UI, Fava, but I'm less familiar with that. I'm wary of handing all our household financial data over to some 3rd party, but I do want insights into our spending, saving, etc, so #plaintextaccounting is handy for that

Todos: some folks prefer TaskWarrior³ which is the 900lb gorillia in the CLI todo-tracking game, but I prefer simple todo.txt-style⁴ todo lists, and I symlink my todo.txt file to my ~/.plan so I can use finger(1) to get my todo list remotely.

They all have the advantage of storing all their data in #plaintext, meaning I can track it in git and sync it around between machines.

That said, I know CLI apps aren't everybody's cup of tea, but they fit my brain and I like keeping everything local. And they're all light on resources, so even the wimpiest RPi runs them fine.

¹ dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remin
² blog.thechases.com/posts/remin
³ taskwarrior.org/
github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cl

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-06-20

Ah, yes, because what we all need is yet another tool to *hurl* plain text HTTP requests into the internet abyss 🌐. It's like playing fetch with a digital boomerang that nobody asked for, but hey, at least it's in plain text 🤦‍♂️. Maybe next, they'll invent a way to test email with smoke signals.
github.com/Orange-OpenSource/h

Joel :casio: :blobcatderpy:joel@fosstodon.org
2025-06-20

New #blogpost!

I Used To Take Notes...

From #GoogleKeep to #Joplin to Doom #Emacs to #PlainText files to pretty much nothing

This is day 84 of #100DaysToOffload

joelchrono.xyz/blog/i-used-to-

#blogging #notetaking #blog

2025-06-13

Over or under rated: Moleskine, Obsidian Sync, Markdown, Vim, Pizza? @hyde 's Over Under series has another episode to check out.

Read it on my blog ellanew.com/2025-06-13-moleski
or Hyde's (includes his take on those 5 things) lazybea.rs/ovr-022/

#moleskine #markdown #obsidian #vim #pizza #analog #plainText

2025-06-12

#Journelly v1.2 is out! This release focuses exclusively on improving accessibility.

Huge thanks to @Yvonnezed for all her help shaping this release!

xenodium.com/journelly-1-2-rel

#plaintext #privacy #orgmode #emacs #vim #swift #swiftui #ios #iphone #journelly

A capital J corresponding to the Journelly icon
2025-06-11

I've been making some progress in bringing #Markdown support to journelly.com

I'll soon have the first builds with #Markdown support available via the beta group.

Interested in joining the TestFlight beta? Reach out (details at journelly.com)

#plaintext #privacy #orgmode #emacs #vim #swift #swiftui #ios #iphone #journelly

scy #GPN23 📞 7299scy@chaos.social
2025-06-07

Are people even using something else than YAML front matter in their Markdown (or whatever) files?

Apparently there are SSGs that support HTML <meta> tag front matter, and if you're using ReStructured Text it probably does its own thing. And I bet there's at least one person on the planet building their website from ASN.1 files.

What are _you_ using?

#WebDev #SSG #YAML #Markdown #FrontMatter #PlainText #StaticSite #StaticWebsite

2025-06-02

This #emacs drawing package looks great! github.com/tbanel/uniline

#plaintext

2025-06-01

Shoutout to #Sweden 🇸🇪 Thank you!

#Journelly is currently the #4 paid #Lifestyle app on the Swedish App Store.

apps.apple.com/se/charts/iphon

ps. I freaking love #fika! I even (attempt to) make my own Kardemummabullar (cardamom buns).

#plaintext #privacy #journaling #swift #swiftui #ios #iphone #baking #iosapps #notes #productivity #travel

2025-05-29

Journelly's first 50 ratings 🤩 🤩

If you're a happy user, please consider rating/reviewing on the App Store 🙏 It really helps!

If you haven't heard of Journelly, go buy it! 😅

apps.apple.com/app/id647071466

#plaintext #privacy #orgmode #swift #swiftui #ios #iphone #journelly #journaling

DeadSwitch @ T0m's 1T C4feTomsITCafe
2025-05-28

DeadSwitch runs on Emacs. No dashboards. No noise. Just command-line silence and sovereign control.

tomsitcafe.com/2025/05/28/dead

Stefan Stoilovcwark
2025-05-25

I keep my to-do list in ~/notes/todo.txt.
I write articles in nvi.
I deploy static sites with rsync.

🏳️‍🌈🤘 Blain Smithblainsmith@snac.rblgk.sh
2025-05-24
2025-05-23

This is fun: github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nv
A neovim plugin for Obsidian. Back to plain-plain text! The app works fine, but I do use a code editor for fast edits, or text replacements often. VScode works fine, but (neo)vim is hard to beat, when talking efficiency.

#obsidian #Notetaking #plaintext

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