Calcurse
Calcurse is a text-based calendar and scheduling application. It helps keep track of events, appointments, and everyday tasks. A configurable notification system reminds the user of upcoming deadlines, and the curses based interface can be customized to suit user needs. All of the commands are documented within an online help system.
| Tags | Information Management Office/Business Scheduling |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Unix Mac OS X Windows Windows Cygwin POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
| Translations | English Spanish German French |
Recent releases
- 25 Jan 2009 16:10
Changes: New enhancements in this version include the ability to cut and paste items, allowing you to move appointments from one day to another. An option to periodically save data was added, together with support for the ISO date format. A new configuration option makes it possible to monitor memory usage. The configuration script was improved to be able to link against the ncursesw library, if ncurses is not available.
- 27 Dec 2008 18:01
Changes: New enhancements in this version include the ability to define its own key bindings. Moreover, the layout configuration menu was redesigned to become more user-friendly. Important bugs were addressed in this release: a memory leak due to a wrong use of the pthread library was fixed, and a possible freeze when deleting an appointment's note does not appear anymore. Regarding data export, exception dates are now properly ignored. Last, a daylight saving time unwanted offset is not added anymore.
- 15 Oct 2008 17:57
Changes: This version includes the ability to import data from the iCalendar format as defined in RFC 2445.
- 28 Aug 2008 20:25
Changes: Enhancements in this version include the ability to export data to pcal format and thus to produce nice-looking Postscript output for printing. Moreover, new command line arguments were added that allow you to use an alternative data directory, and to be more flexible when specifying the range of dates to be considered when displaying appointments and events. Finally, new key bindings ease movements in the calendar.
- 17 May 2008 21:03
Changes: An important bug addressed in this release concerns the changing of todo priority, which could result in a segfault in some cases. New enhancements in this version include the ability to display note contents in non-interactive mode, and date formats are now user-configurable. Last, the Italian manual translation was added.
