Caldav / carddav

• /home/varac/projects/caldav

GUI Calendar clients

gnome-calendar

• Gitlab
• gnome-online-accounts
• FR: More flexible event recurrence UI
  • Currently only very basic recurrency options possible

sudo pacman -S gnome-calendar gnome-online-accounts-gtk

Direct caldav support only

• evolution: Big, monolithic application.
  • Not modular still the best choice for timezone support and complex recurring rules.
• Nextcloud calendar
  • Support webcal http auth & store credentials
  • good recurrency support for event
  • No offline support, obviously

Unmaintained

• california: Last tag 0.4.0 from 2014
• Orage: Not usable, horrible UI

cli sync tools

pimsync

• pimsync: a successor to vdirsyncer
• Git
• Docs
  • Migration guide

vdirsyncer

• Website
• GitHub
• Config and data dir: ~/.vdirsyncer/

cli clients

• vdirsyncer: Other tutorials

Calcure

• GitHub
• Modern TUI calendar and task manager with minimal and customizable UI
• Docs
  • Syncing with clouds
• FR: Support ICS files
• Only supports vdisyncer singlefile mode, not vdir mode

Install:

pamac install calcure

Calcurse

• GitHub
• Docs
• A text-based calendar and scheduling application
• Unclear how to use it with vdirsyncer

Khal

• GitHub
• Nice ncurses UI, but lacking timezone support for creating events and complex recurring rules.

cadaver

• Website
• GitHub
• Backup your caldav calendar with cadaver
• Supports ~/.netrc file for authentication

Install:

sudo pacman -S cadaver

Backup caldav resources:

export URL='https://cloud.moewe-altonah.de/remote.php/webdav'
mkdir /tmp/calendar
cd /tmp/calendar
cadaver $URL
ls
…

caldr

• GitHub
• read-only lookup from caldav servers
• no vdirsyncer support

calcleaner

• GitHub
  • A simple graphical tool to purge old events from CalDAV calendars

ics-event-cli

• ics-event-cli
  • Python tool to extract and display events from an ICS file

Validate ics files

• icalendar-validator
  • Last commit 2019
• Online service: .ics Validator / Linter