diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f9de593..c432a31 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ eventdb little tools to convert lists of events -Take an Excelsheet and convert it to an ics-file. +Take an spreadsheet and convert it to an ics-file. Prerequisites ============= @@ -12,3 +12,48 @@ Prerequisites * rem2ics https://github.com/scy/rem2ics * rem2html https://github.com/SwissKid/rem2html * make https://www.gnu.org/software/make/ + +Sourcefiles +=========== +* remind-scripts for repeating events like Valentine's Day +* .csv files for your events + +CSV-format +========== +I use quite a simple format here + +D;M;Y;D;M;Y;Name;Location;City,Country,URL + +Just place your file(s) in the source directory. + +Remind-scripts +============== +Remind is an awesome swiss army knive for calendars and alarms. +Especially for repeating things like "every last friday of the month", try that with cron. +The only problem is, it does not work well with "event lasts from 1.sep to 10.oct". +Thouse events should be put in the csv. +I also use remind here as processor for the html-calendar and for the ics. + +Output +====== +* events-ikiwiki.csv, use it with events.mdwn in ikiwikis table directive https://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki/directive/table/ +* events-remind.rem, a basic remind-script with all events +* events.ics, import it to your calendar +* events.html, a html calendar + +Scripts +======= +* Makefile, the glue for everything. Replace it with a shell script according to your needs. + +Directories +=========== +* output, grab your results from here +* scripts, this is where the magic happens +* source, put your files here +* temp, stageing directory for scripts + +Future Versions +=============== +* I'm not happy with the ics, basically it's just the date and the name of the event. +* export to org-mode +* import of ics-files