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Congrats to slugmax on his new house! It's nice to hear about things working out like that. lntl, I hope you've made it into the new place safely after the great tire 'adventure' (right before moving no less)! * * * Tonight, my wife and I are making some kind of Thai chicken soup. I'm sure she'd kill me for that description. I'm just the sous chef, washing and cutting vegetables. The soup tastes amazing already. It goes over rice or vermicelli, and I can't wait, but I have a feeling that it needs to cook for a while. Sigh. Still, all in all, a nice way to spend a Saturday evening. I'm sitting in the kitchen, phlogging away on my phone. I read some old phlogs yesterday and one of them (can't find it now, despite some serious searching[0]) made referenece to 'life in a single text file'. So I started looking into the concept: the idea of having all of your PIM in one text file. Years ago, I used to keep my schedule and notes at work in a single Word document, but it never occurred to me to have my contacts in there too. I think I'd prefer to create three separate links on the desktop. One would be to the calendar, one to the contacts, and one to a folder full of notes in individual text files, sorted by last saved. The latter would replicate the behaviour of most notes apps I have used. The calendar as a text file makes a lot of sense to me. I always switch my calendar to agenda mode anyways, so I could put the repeating events in a weekly format, and either add non-repeating events in temporarily or have a section below for non-repeating events. Something like this seems reasonable: DAY TIME EVENT LOCATION M 10:30-12:00 xxx xxx 12:00-13:00 xxx xxx 16:00-19:00 xxx xxx T W T F ONE-TIME EVENTS DATE TIME EVENT LOCATION The idea of using text files like this really appeals to me because proprietary formats annoy me and I try to avoid anything that a thoughtful person can't understand with a reasonable amount of attention and effort. That's why I liked Slackware so much with its editable init and config files. I also want the portability of being able to take the files anywhere, to any system I choose. Another thing that has my interest these days is the possibility of an 'actual Linux' handheld device, preferably with phone capabilities. I'm waiting to see what the Pine64 phone will be like. It was announced a couple of months ago.[1] There are others in development too, but they look cost prohibitive. I've never been one to throw insane amounts of money at individual pieces of tech. I've also been looking at the Raspberry Pi creations at n-o-d-e.net[2] If the version 2 device had calling, SMS, and GNU utilities, you'd be set. There are modules that add 3G to the pi, and videos of people who have working setups on youtube, so it's definitely within reach. Speaking of n-o-d-e, some of you have discussed decentralized networks in your phlogs before, and the n-o-d-e site has an interesting link to a decentralized browser-based project called VoluntaryNet[3] that may be of interest. Certainly the philosophy espoused in both places[4] reflects some of what I've read in gopherspace. [0] Edit on January 11, 2019: It was tengu's phlog at gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~tengu/Low_Tech_Pim_s01.txt [1] https://itsfoss.com/pinebook-kde-smartphone/ [2] https://n-o-d-e.net/zeroterminal.html https://n-o-d-e.net/zeroterminal2.html https://n-o-d-e.net/terminal_3.html [3] https://voluntary.net/ [4] https://n-o-d-e.net/dc02.html