A small CLI utility for keeping a "datebook"

datebook is a CLI utility for keeping track of your day-to-day. Each datebook entry corresponds to single day which is a place to store notes, links, thoughts, scratch work and anything else you can put into a markdown file for the day or week.

Here's what a datebook entry could look like:

# Sunday October 18

## todo

* finish the first version of `datebook`
* write some tests for `datebook`

## week

* work on more functional date parsing for `datebook`

TODO add installation directions

datebook uses a basic NLP based library to parse dates. For instance, the following commands could be used to pull up any assortment of datebook entries:

• $ datebook tomorrow
• $ datebook today
• $ datebook june 1st
• $ datebook 4 months ago
• $ datebook tuesday

When a new entry is created in your datebook you can specify a starting template. By default, datebook expects this file to exist at $HOME/.datebook.md. To specify a custom template file, simply call datebook with a template argument.

$ datebook -template /my_template_path.md

The template file allows some rudimentary string interpolation and currently supports the following variables.

• year
• month
• day
• weekday

# %weekday% %month% %day%

## todo

## links

This template would create datebook entries like the following:

# Sunday October 18

## todo

## links

Your datebook is a place to keep track of things. Sometimes it is helpful to keep a few things around through the course of a week. Things such as checklists, reminders for later in the week and anything else that might not correspond to just a single day can be passed between datebook entries.

By adding a ## week block in any entry, each datebook entry that week will share said block.