Malakal

• Malakal

Malakal is a day planner application. I crafted it because I was not able to find a comfortable calendar application for Linux.

I consider it in a mostly usable state - I myself have been using it on a daily basis for around a year now. Bug reports, feature requests, and contributions are warmly welcomed.

#+html: <img src="asset/screenshot.png" width="600"/>

• Features

Core features:

• quickly add/modify/relocate/clone/delete events
• notify on event starts
• stored as standard ical files
• post-update command (for running e.g. vdirsyncher)

UI/UX features:

• click to edit event title
• snapping mode (hold down shift to precision mode)
• ctrl-z to undo modifications
• drag on blank to create events
• drag on an event to change its begin/end time or move the event
• ctrl-drag on an event to clone it
• right-click on an event to open menu (for event detail & deletion)
• right-click on blank area to open calendar view
• quickly jumping to dates in calendar view
• current date/time indicator
• full keyboard support for navigation/event manipulation

Typical calendar features that are not supported by malakal:

• synchronization/webdav: for now, you can use vdirsync for synchronization
• command line query: malakal happily shares local ical files with [[https://github.com/pimutils/khal][khal]]
• recurrent events: it may add a lot of complexity so it's not currently planned

• Keyboard shortcuts

| Keys | Actions | |-----------------+------------------------------------| | Tab/Shift-Tab | Focus previous/next event | | Arrow keys | Focus event on the given direction | | Ctrl+Arrow keys | Move focused event | | Shift+Up/Down | Resize focused event | | n | Create new event | | x/Del | Delete focused event | | . | Scroll the view to today |

Arrow keys can be substituted for vim-style navigation keys (hjkl) in all above cases.

• Installation

If you have rust on your computer, you can type:

#+begin_src cargo install malakal #+end_src

Alternatively, you can download the binary from release page.