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imag-counter | ||
imag-diary | ||
imag-link | ||
imag-notes | ||
imag-ref | ||
imag-store | ||
imag-tag | ||
imag-todo | ||
imag-view | ||
libimagbookmark | ||
libimagcounter | ||
libimagdiary | ||
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libimagerror | ||
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libimagmail | ||
libimagnotes | ||
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libimagstore | ||
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libimagtodo | ||
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CONTRIBUTING.md | ||
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README.md |
imag - imag-pim.org
imag
is a commandline personal information management suite.
This application is in early development. There are some things that work, but we do not consider anything stable or usable at this moment. Feel free to play around anyways.
Goal / What is imag?
Our (long-term) goal is to
Create a fast, reliable commandline personal information management suite which covers all aspects of personal information management, consists of reusable parts and integrates well with known commandline tools.
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.
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
but imag-calendar
with icalendar
files.
Building/Running
Here goes how to try imag
out.
imag
is a suite/collection of tools and you can build them individually.
All subdirectories prefixed with "libimag"
are libraries for the respective
binaries.
All subdirectories prefixed with "imag-"
are binaries and compiling them will
give you a commandline application.
Building
We use make
to automate the build process (as cargo
is not (yet?) able to
build several applications at once).
Make sure to not include some -j 8
arguments, as cargo parallelizes the
build process on its own. If you parallelize it with make, you end up with a
really high load on your system.
There are several targets for each of the sub-crates in the Makefile:
Target | Multi | Purpose | Example |
---|---|---|---|
all | Build everything, debug mode | make all |
|
bin | Build all binaries, debug mode | make bin |
|
lib | Build all libraries, debug mode | make lib |
|
lib-test | Test all libraries | make lib-test |
|
imag-bin | Build only the imag binary, debug mode |
make imag-bin |
|
check | * | Run cargo check |
make check |
clean | * | Remove build artifacts | make clean |
install | * | Build everything, release mode, install | make install |
release | * | Build everything, release mode | make release |
update | * | Run cargo update |
make update |
The Multi
targets are callable for each sub-crate. For example you can call
make imag-bookmark-check
to run cargo check
on the imag-bookmark
subcrate.
Running
After you build the module you want to play with, you can simply call the binary
itself with the --help
flag, to get some help what the module is capable of.
If you installed the module, you can either call imag-<modulename>
(if the
install-directory is in your $PATH
), or install the imag
binary to call imag <modulename>
(also if everything is in your $PATH
).
Staying up-to-date
Despite we have a official site for imag, I do not push updates to this site, yet. Anyways, I post a blog articles about what happened in the last two weeks every other week.
You can find them on my personal blog, tagged "imag"
I also post these blog posts on reddit and submit them to this-week-in-rust.
From time to time I publish an article about imag which does not focus on some things that are happening, but rather about something more general.
Documentation
For detailed information, please read the documentation. You can either read the Markdown files or compile it to HTML/PDF using pandoc. Developer documentation is also available online on github.io.
Please note that the documentation is work in progress as well and may be outdated.
Please contribute!
We are looking for contributors!
There is always a number of complexity/easy tagged issues available in the issue tracker you can start with and we are open to questions!
Feel free to open issues for asking questions, suggesting features or other things!
Also have a look at the CONTRIBUTING.md file!
Contact
Have a look at our website where you can find some information on how to get in touch and so on.
Feel free to join our new IRC channel at freenode: #imag or our mailinglist.
License
We chose to distribute this software under terms of GNU LGPLv2.1.
This decision was made to ensure everyone can write applications which use the imag core functionality which is distributed with the imag source distribution.