#qcal

qcal is a CLI calendar application for CalDAV servers written in Go. In contrast to other tools it does not cache anything. It can fetch multiple servers / calendars in parallel which makes it quite fast.

Its main purpose is displaying calendar data. Nevertheless it supports basic creation and editing of entries.

#Features

• Condensed quick overview of appointments
• Parallel fetching of multiple calendars
• Viewing of iCal subscriptions
• Easy to use filters
• Create, modify and delete appointments
• Import ICS files
• Display ICS files
• Easy setup

#Installation / Configuration

• Have Go installed
• make && sudo make install (for MacOS: make darwin)
• copy config-sample.json to ~/.config/qcal/config.json and modify accordingly

#Arch AUR package

• Here: AUR
• Copy config-sample.json from /usr/share/doc/qcal/ to ~/.config/qcal/config.json and modify accordingly

#Configuration

• For additional calendars just add a comma and new calendar credentials in curly brackets.
• Omit Username and Password if you add a readonly iCal source

#Usage

Common options:

qcal -h

#Displaying appointments

This simply displays all appointments for the next x days (configured in config.json):

qcal

This shows all appointments for today:

qcal -t

This only shows appointments from calendar 0 for the next seven days:

qcal -c 0 -7

This shows all appointments from 01.10.2021, 00:00h to 31.10.2021, 23:59:59 (Note: This is in UTC!):

qcal -s 20211001T000000 -e 20211031T235959

This displays all avaliable calendars with their numbers and colors:

qcal -l

#Add new appointment

Even though the abillity to create new appointments is limited, it is easy to create simple appointment types.

This creates an appointment on 01.12.2021 from 15:00h to 17:00h with the summary of "Tea Time":

qcal -n "20211201 1500 1700 Tea Time"

This creates a whole day appointment with a yearly recurrence in your second calendar (first is 0):

qcal -c 1 -n "20211114 Anne's Birthday" -r y

This creates a multiple day appointment:

qcal -n "20210801 20210810 Holiday in Thailand"

#Edit an appointment

This shows the next 7 days of appointments from calendar 3 with filenames ("foobarxyz.ics"):

qcal -c 2 -7 -f 

This edits the selected iCAL object in your $EDITOR (i.e. vim). When you save-quit the modified object is automatically uploaded:

qcal -c 2 -edit foobarxyz.ics

#Integrations

#neomutt / other cli mail tools

You can view received appointments in neomutt with qcal! Put this in your mailcap (usually in .config/neomutt):

text/calendar; qcal -p; copiousoutput

If you also want to be able to import received appointments directly from neomutt, put the following two lines in mailcap:

text/calendar; qcal -c 0 -u %s && notify-send "Appointment created";
text/calendar; qcal -p; copiousoutput

The first line is only executed if you press Return. The second line just displays the appointment as above.

#Crontab (or Statusline script, Systemd timer, etc.)

You can get reminders of your appointments 15 mins in advance with this one liner:

[[ $(qcal -cron 15 2>/dev/null) ]] && notify-send "Next Appointment:" "\n $(qcal -cron 15)" || true

#External password command

Instead of putting your password in the config file you can specify an external command to resolve your password. Put a line like this in your calendar config and leave the "Password" field empty:

"PasswordCmd":"rbw get email-provider"

#About

Questions? Ideas? File bugs and TODOs through the issue tracker or send an email to ~psic4t/qcal@todo.sr.ht