chroncal is a terminal-based calendar application with an interactive text user interface and a comprehensive command-line interface. It stores calendar data locally in SQLite while supporting standard calendar formats and remote synchronisation.
The application manages events, tasks and journal entries. Its TUI offers month, week, day and agenda views, while its CLI provides scriptable access with human-readable or JSON output.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Interactive terminal user interface with month, week, day and agenda views.
- Command-line interface suitable for scripting and automation.
- Manages events, to-dos, journal entries and multiple calendars.
- Stores data locally in an SQLite database.
- Imports and exports iCalendar files with broad RFC 5545 support.
- Synchronises calendars with CalDAV servers.
- Provides per-calendar remote connections and synchronisation status information.
- Handles synchronisation conflicts and Google account reauthentication.
- Supports recurring events, to-dos and journals using RRULE, RDATE and EXDATE.
- Offers local and remote free/busy queries.
- Provides desktop, sound and email alarm notifications.
- Supports multiple colour-coded calendars.
- Offers full-text search across events, to-dos and journals.
- Manages attendees, attachments, comments, contacts, resources and relationships.
- Produces human-readable text or structured JSON output.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS and Windows.
Website: github.com/DouglasdeMoura/chroncal
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Developer: Douglas de Moura
License: MIT License
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