macOS terminal tool to fetch calendar events from `Calendar.app`

Features

• JSON by default
• integrated templating engine
• for emoji lovers ❤️
  • separate leading emojis from event title
  • add emojis based on title
• start and end time in relative and absolute terms
• ical URL that can be used to show the event in Calendar.app
• parse meeting URLs from notes (Google, Zoom, Teams)
• natural language parser

Examples

JSON

Example output in JSON

plan next

[
  {
    "id": "9675DF46-4040-4762-A70B-6CD65DC01C36:CC525CBD-F5A3-4EBB-970E-7A0EC2D2370D",
    "calendar": {
      "id": "C5AE5024-78BD-4965-BB0D-0E43E1024368",
      "color": "#E195DA",
      "label": "Some calendar",
      "type": "caldav",
      "source": "Personal"
    },
    "title": {
      "full": "🏆 Release plan",
      "label": "Release plan",
      "icon": "🏆"
    },
    "schedule": {
      "start": {
        "at": "2024-09-02T18:00:00+02:00",
        "in": 30
      },
      "end": {
        "at": "2024-09-02T19:00:00+02:00",
        "in": 90
      },
      "all_day": false,
      "duration": 60
    },
    "services": [
      { "ical": "ical://ekevent/9675DF46-4040-4762-A70B-6CD65DC01C36?method=show&options=more" }
    ],
    "tags": [ "timeblock" ]
  }
]

markdown

plan today --template-path path/to/template.md

With template.md:

{% for e in events %}- {{ e.schedule.start.at|format:"HH:mm"}} - {{ e.schedule.end.at|format:"HH:mm"}} [{{ e.title.full }}]({{e.services["ical"]}}) #{{ e.calendar.label|lowercase }}
{% endfor %}

You get

- 12:15 - 12:45 [🥗 Lunch](ical://ekevent/CC23ADF2-9303-42C4-A854-BE12F2081E16?method=show&options=more) #private
- 13:00 - 14:00 [🕐 Meeting](ical://ekevent/59856934-5D89-45A2-9C11-0E3877F1B082?method=show&options=more) #work

For more details, see Docs/Templating.

Usage

Commands

Example commands (use plan --help for full usage)

• plan calendars List available calendars
• plan next Returns the current or next event within the next hour
• plan today Returns all events for today
• plan on [expression] Return all events on the given days e.g. plan on "next monday"

Use cases

plan can help with your productivity setup.

It plays very well with Sketchybar and Obsidian and with the default output format being JSON, and the templating engine, you can easily make plan fit your individual needs.

Sketchybar

You can use it with Sketchybar to show the next event. For more details, read Docs/Sketchybar

Obsidian

You can use it with Obsidian to inject today's schedule into your notes. For more details, consult Docs/Obsidian and Docs/Templating.

Templating

For more details, consult Docs/Templating.

Installation

Via GitHub

• installs to $HOME/.local/bin/plan (make sure it's in $PATH)

git clone [email protected]:oschrenk/plan.swift.git
cd plan.swift
task install

Via Homebrew

brew tap oschrenk/made [email protected]:oschrenk/homebrew-made
brew install oschrenk/made/plan