From 5f15c21d30f164fcf9072aa42f5ae7affca85c37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Beyer Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 11:12:46 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Rewrite Goal --- README.md | 34 +++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 624a353e..5c281fb8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ but we do not consider anything stable or usable at this moment. Feel free to play around anyways.** -## What is this / Goal and Functionality +## Goal / What is imag? Our (long-term) goal is to @@ -20,29 +20,17 @@ Our (long-term) goal is to > management, consists of reusable parts and integrates well with known > commandline tools. -We try to implement as many aspects of personal information management (PIM), -but re-use existing commandline tools. -We do this by tracking/referring to the data the tools create. -A user can now link pieces of data (from different tools), tag this data and -query/search this data using imag. -So `imag` is more like a data-mining helper than an actual PIM tool, but we -implement some of the PIM aspects directly in `imag`. -Parts of PIM (we call them "modules") that are already implemented and basically -working: +imag is a PIM _helper_. We do not actually implement the PIM functionality, but +try to interface with existing PIM tools (via their API or via some standard +format they use, e.g. vcard) to make the data they manage _linkable_ +and _queryable_ in an uniform way. -* todo (via taskwarrior, we track the tasks one creates in taskwarrior) -* diary -* notes -* bookmarks -* counter (just an example, nothing that usable) - -Helper modules that come with `imag` but are not "PIM aspects": - -* linking entries -* viewing entries -* tagging entries -* creating misc entries -* creating entries that refer to files/directories +imag consists of _modules_ (e.g. `imag-notes`, `imag-diary`), where each module +covers one PIM aspect. +The initial approach is to use one PIM tool for one module. +So you can use `imag-todo` with [taskwarrior](https://taskwarrior.org/) +but `imag-calendar` with [icalendar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar) +files. ## Building/Running