A grumpy editor's calendar search [LWN.net]

A grumpy editor's calendar search

Posted Mar 10, 2004 12:24 UTC (Wed) by krash (subscriber, #2689)
Parent article: A grumpy editor's calendar search

Well my favorite seems to have been overlooked. I use J-Pilot. It provides all of the features you mention and then some. It has a simple to use interface. Most if not all entry is done in a single screen. Yes it is intended also as an interface to a PDA device but the PDA is not a requirement for using all of the other features. Give it a look at www.jpilot.org.

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A grumpy editor's calendar search

Posted Mar 10, 2004 12:54 UTC (Wed) by jhenry (subscriber, #991) [Link]

Another missing option seems to be XNotesPlus.

I believe the author is a former LWN editor/contributor, so I'm really suprised this package didn't get mentioned. I downloaded this just the other day, but I haven't had time to try it out yet. I'm interested in it's Palm sync capabilties.

XNotesPlus is non-free

Posted Mar 10, 2004 13:56 UTC (Wed) by ber (subscriber, #2142) [Link]

XNotesPlus is proprietary software.
I expect LWN to only consider Free Software for such a task.

A grumpy editor's calendar search

Posted Mar 10, 2004 14:08 UTC (Wed) by utidjian (subscriber, #444) [Link]

XNotesPlus is not "free". It is shareware. Yes, the source is available... but it doesn't build on my system (something about pspell). J-pilot does. It also has a horrendously ugly interface (from the screenshots). I suppose the interface is adjustable but it is hard to tell when it won't build. Seems that supported binaries (US$10) are available up to Red Hat 7.3. RH7.3 is no longer supported by Red Hat. In other words... XNotesPlus seems to be an even more deadend proposition than ical. ical, BTW, still builds and installs correctly on my system (Fedora Core 1).

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