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Looking for a program to document things in life. (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org to c/softwareoptions@lemmy.world

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Hello all. I'm looking for (a) program(s) to manage & document things in life. Mainly these features are what I need:

Diary, random notes(like a wiki?) with version control
TODO list, auto added to diary at that time period
Ability to attach images and text files to those diary, notes
Calendar with schedule synced with TODO
Easy backup, preferably in plaintext or simple db
Text search

Currently I'm using SeaMonkey and my phone(android) to manage calendar (so two separated ones), a paper note to write diaries and use dokuwiki for random notes. This setup is too complicated and isn't productive at all.

I do think my requirements are kinda abstract, and there most likely isn't a single program that can do all this. Although basic I'm a novice FreeBSD & Emacs+evil user so *nix-only or text-based utilities are okay. I'm not aware of any program that meets these needs, is there anything that resembles what I'm thinking? Thanks!

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[–] Plasma@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Have you looked into https://obsidian.md? I just briefly looked and found this plugin for a calendar.

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I second obsidian! I use it for a daily diary and various notes. You can either use a network share and Syncthing to sync your files between multiple devices, or just pay a few dollars for their (completely encrypted) cloud service

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks, though it isn't open source (and no BSD support) it looks cool, I might try. I'm curious, is there a version control system available in it? Or would that be possible with a plugin?

Edit: Seems like it's Electron based :/ Looks pretty good but that's such a big con..

[–] Plasma@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can version control it yes. To your Electron point, personally I think it's a very well put together app, it doesn't at all feel like it's Electron with usual sluggishness; it's very responsive and quick.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For notes, commit to a consistent folder on each of your devices, and use Markdown.

You'll discover tons of utilities for various contexts are amazing for Markdown.

For Todo lists, look for support for the todo.txt format.