toobusy

Experimental and unfinished notmuch-like command-line tool for iCalendars

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2025-04-12 README.md: Fix line break in link Sören Tempel
2025-04-12 Add toobusy-search Sören Tempel
2025-04-06 README.md: Expand status section Sören Tempel
2025-04-06 Makefile: Remove usage of obsolete SRCFILES variable in install rule Sören Tempel
2025-04-06 README.md: Add installation instructions Sören Tempel

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toobusy

This is an unfinished experiment for implementing a notmuch-like command-line tool for iCalendars.

Status

This is presently an unfinished proof-of-concept prototype. Ideally, I would like to rewrite this in a statically typed language like Haskell or Rust. However, I would first have to write Xapian bindings for such a language and presently I am not motivated enough to do so. Further, properly implementing this in Guile requires improving the guile-ics library. For instance, this library is presently lacking proper support for recurring events. Essentially, making progress on this project requires working on either an RFC 5545 or Xapian library and neither seems particularly “fun” right now.

Development Setup

Requires a working Guix installation:

$ guix time-machine -C channels.scm -- shell
[env] $ guile -L src -s ./bin/toobusy-index samples/*.ics
[env] $ guile -L src -s ./bin/toobusy-list -s 01-01-1000 -e 01-01-3000
[env] $ guile -L src -s ./bin/toobusy-search party

Installation

Presently, this is supposed to be installed via Guix:

$ guix time-machine -C channels.scm -- package -f package.scm