I finally have a workflow for getting my CardDAV contacts into #aerc. It's not pretty, but it works. I'd like to have used vdirsyncer for syncing up my Zoho vcard contacts, but it keeps bombing out on the import. So I had to give up on that.

Instead, whenever I have updates on the Zoho side that I want to get into aerc, I manually export from the web interface of Zoho my contacts. Then I run a Python script I wrote that will convert that file into a directory with vcf files that #khard likes working with. I have aerc configured to use khard to do the search and return results for aerc to display as I compose my email.

It's a pretty easy process even though it's not perfect.

Thanks go to @amin for providing pointers and tools!

#10ThingsILoveRightNow

- #khal (cli calendar manager)
- #khard (cli contact manager)
- #irc (neckbeards chat solution)
- #rss (old-school subscriptions)
- #beets (music organizer)
- #river (wayland window manager)
- #fzf (cli fuzzy finder)
- #sourcehut (software platform)
- #yt-dlp (legal software to archive copyleft media)
- #unbound (dns server)

Can we make this a thing again?

So, my #FLOSS todo list for the next days:
- get that #Recoll plugin for #Synapse working again
- write that script to make @qownnotes use @pandoc and @libreoffice to generate a PDF booklet
- make that #iBook G4 running again and set up an usable PIM suite using #vdirsyncer, #khal, #khard and #mutt.

If I'm somewhat recreated by that time I'm gonna restart coding on #ObjGTK. But after Christmas I'm really too exhausted to get into deep work too soon. 🤔 🤷‍♂️

Today I managed to install and configure
- my contacts (vdirsyncer + khard, formerly khal)
- my calendar (calcurse + calcurse-caldav. Might switch to vdirsyncer)
- my mail (offlineimap + neomutt)
- my todo txt (todo.sh)

Not happy with saving credentials in plain text :-(

But I can look into Lua (conky and awesome WM widgets) next!

#vdirsyncer #khard #khal #calcurse #offlineimap #neomutt #todotxt

Today I finally moved with my contact and calendar management into the terminal with #vdirsyncer #khal and #khard.

Thank you @hund for your great post: https://hund.tty1.se/2020/08/12/how-to-sync-and-manage-your-caldav-and-carddav-via-the-terminal.html

#carddav #caldav #terminal