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# imag - [imag-pim.org](http://imag-pim.org)
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`imag` is a commandline personal information management suite.
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**This application is in early development. There are _some_ things that work,
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but we do not consider anything stable or usable at this moment. Feel free to
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play around anyways.**
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[](https://travis-ci.org/matthiasbeyer/imag)
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[](http://www.issuestats.com/github/matthiasbeyer/imag)
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[](http://www.issuestats.com/github/matthiasbeyer/imag)
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[]()
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## What is this / Goal and Functionality
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Our (long-term) goal is to
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> Create a fast, reliable commandline personal
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> information management suite which covers all aspects of personal information
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> management, consists of reusable parts and integrates well with known
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> commandline tools.
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We try to implement as many aspects of personal information management (PIM),
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but re-use existing commandline tools.
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We do this by tracking/referring to the data the tools create.
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A user can now link pieces of data (from different tools), tag this data and
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query/search this data using imag.
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So `imag` is more like a data-mining helper than an actual PIM tool, but we
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implement some of the PIM aspects directly in `imag`.
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Parts of PIM (we call them "modules") that are already implemented and basically
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working:
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* todo (via taskwarrior, we track the tasks one creates in taskwarrior)
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* diary
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* notes
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* bookmarks
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* counter (just an example, nothing that usable)
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Helper modules that come with `imag` but are not "PIM aspects":
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* linking entries
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* viewing entries
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* tagging entries
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* creating misc entries
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* creating entries that refer to files/directories
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## Building/Running
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Here goes how to try `imag` out.
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`imag` is a _suite_ of tools and you can build them individually.
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All subdirectories prefixed with "`libimag"` are libraries for the respective
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binaries.
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All subdirectories prefixed with `"imag-"` are binaries and compiling them will
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give you a commandline application.
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### Building
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By now, there are several targets in the Makefile, fulfilling following roles:
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* `all` is the default and builds every crate in debug mode.
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To build a single module, call `make <module>`, for example `make imag-store`.
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* `release`, as the name implies, builds every module in release mode.
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E.G.: `make imag-store-release` to build "imag-store" in release mode.
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* `install` will install all commandline modules to the default installation
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root (see `man cargo-install`).
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To install a single module, run `make <module>-install`,
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E.G.: `make imag-store-install`
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* `bin`/`lib` are separate targets for either building all binaries or
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libraries.
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* `lib-test` runs `cargo test` for all libraries.
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For testing a single library, E.G.: `make test-libimagstore`.
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* `clean` will run `cargo clean` in every crate.
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For cleaning a single crate, use `make imag-store-clean` for example.
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* to build _only_ the `imag` binary, use the target `imag-bin`
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(`imag-bin-release` for release build, `imag-bin-clean` for `cargo clean`ing).
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### Running
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To test out a single module, simply using `cargo run -- <options>` in the
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respective directory will do the trick.
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But you can also `make <module>` and call the binary on the commandline.
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For using it "normally", install the
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binaries as described above, as well as the imag-binary:
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```
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$> make install
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```
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The installation root of the binaries may not yet be in your $PATH.
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To see where this installation root is check out `man cargo-install`.
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To change the $PATH in bash:
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```bash
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$> PATH=$PATH:~/.cargo/bin
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$> imag --help
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```
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To test, simply add `--help` to one of the above commands:
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```bash
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$> imag counter --help
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```
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## Staying up-to-date
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Despite we have a [official site for imag](http://imag-pim.org), I do not push
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updates to this site, yet. Anyways, I post a blog articles about what happened
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in the last two weeks every other week.
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You can find them
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[on my personal blog, tagged "imag"](http://beyermatthias.de/tags/imag.html)
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I also post these blog posts
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[on reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/search?q=What%27s+coming+up+in+imag&restrict_sr=on)
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and submit them to [this-week-in-rust](https://this-week-in-rust.org/).
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From time to time I publish an article about imag which does not focus on some
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things that are happening, but rather about something more general.
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## Documentation
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For detailed information, please read [the documentation](./doc/).
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You can either read the Markdown files or compile it to HTML/PDF using
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[pandoc](http://pandoc.org).
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Developer documentation is also available
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[online on github.io](https://matthiasbeyer.github.io/imag/imag_documentation/index.html).
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Please note that the documentation is work in progress as well and may be
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outdated.
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## Please contribute!
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We are looking for contributors!
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There is always a number of
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[complexity/easy tagged issues](https://github.com/matthiasbeyer/imag/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Acomplexity%2Feasy)
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available in the issue tracker you can start with and we are open to questions!
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Feel free to open issues for asking questions, suggesting features or other
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things!
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Also have a look at [the CONTRIBUTING.md file](./CONTRIBUTING.md)!
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## Contact
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Have a look at [our website](http://imag-pim.org) where you can find some
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information on how to get in touch and so on.
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Feel free to join our new IRC channel at freenode: #imag
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or our [mailinglist](http://imag-pim.org/mailinglist/).
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## License
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We chose to distribute this software under terms of GNU LGPLv2.1.
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This decision was made to ensure everyone can write applications which use the
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imag core functionality which is distributed with the imag source distribution.
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