Topics like this are great, there is so much interesting software to discover!


To-do lists, Calendars, and notifications

https://github.com/vain/gitodo which also includes highcal: Basically just a colored "cal" that can highlight deadlines of TODO items. A cronjob can create e-mails as reminders (these mails don't leave my system, they just end up in my user's ~/Mail).

For those little reminders ("in 15 minutes, your pizza is ready!"), there are wrappers around at(1): https://github.com/vain/bin-pub/blob/master/alarm and https://github.com/vain/bin-pub/blob/master/listalarms

Contacts

I store contacts in a JSON file + some tools to read that file:

• https://github.com/vain/bin-pub/blob/mas...js.example
  
• https://github.com/vain/dotfiles-pub/blo...liases#L20
  
• https://github.com/vain/bin-pub/blob/mas...eric_query
  
• https://github.com/vain/bin-pub/blob/mas...mutt_query
  
• https://github.com/vain/bin-pub/blob/mas...y_reminder
  

"contacts_mutt_query" can also query an ldap server. I need that at work.

Note taking and storage

Just a git repo containing text and markdown files.

Email setups

exim/dovecot on my server, mpop/msmtp + procmail + mu on my workstations. mutt as MUA. When I mark mails as "read", they get committed to a git repo and thus get synced amongst my machines. Yes, this sounds a little weird (why not just imap?), but it works quite well and makes it hard to accidentally lose mails.

On each workstation, there's a local exim with a minimal configuration which allows me to use /usr/bin/sendmail. It just permits local mail from one unix user to another.

Device synchronization

I don't have a smartphone, so it's just git and unison.