vimalender is a terminal calendar application with vim-style keybindings.
Written in Go with the Bubble Tea and Lip Gloss frameworks, it lets users navigate, create, move, search, and customise calendar events entirely from the keyboard, while also providing command-line subcommands for scripting and automation.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Week, month, and year views.
- Vim-style navigation plus help overlay with live key rebinding.
- Multi-day events, including recurring multi-day events and 24h+ all-day spans at the top of week view.
- Visual selection, copy, cut, paste, delete, and grouped move.
- Recurring move/delete flows with o = one occurrence and a = all occurrences.
- Search with persistent match navigation.
- In-app .ics import and export flows available from Settings.
- In-app color customization for event color, consecutive-event color, event background, and UI accent.
Website: github.com/Sadoaz/vimalender
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Developer: Sadoaz
License: MIT License
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Nice tool! Thank you for the article! Your website is great!
Thanks for your kind words. I hope the website is useful and will become more useful. There are lots of things that need working on.