V. Can anyone suggest any good calendar programs?

1. xcal, written by Peter Collinson, is an interactive calendar program, meant as a companion to the xclock program. It features:
   • "today"'s appointments inspector;
   • calendar file for today and seven daily regular commitments;
   • memos.
   xcal is available at any comp.sources.x archive (See Question 1).

2. xkal, developed by George Ferguson, is a graphical appointment calendar that allows you to maintain many types of reminders (system, personal (with colour-coded criticality levels)), displays them in several different formats, and allows you to add and edit them. Silent and non-graphic modes are provided to allow xkal to be used to check for appointments without interaction.

   The latest version, 1.20, is available at:

   ftp://ftp.uni-trier.de/pub/unix/X11/R5/contrib/clients/xkal/xkal-1.20.tar.Z

3. ical, developed by Sanjay Ghemawat, is a calendar manager featuring:
   • appointments or notices can be added or deleted and can be made to repeat in various ways;
   • post reminders for upcoming appointments, print and list item occurrences;
   • share calendars amongst different users.

   Release 2.0 of ical is designed to work with Tk4.0. If you are using older versions of Tcl/Tk, you will need to upgrade.

   See the Appendix, for information about obtaining Tcl/Tk.

   The latest version of ical can be ftp'd from:

   ftp.lcs.mit.edu:/pub/sanjay/common/ical-2.0p2.tar.Z

4. calentool, developed by Bill Randle, is a day/week/month/year- at-glance tool. It also features recurring appointments (e.g every Monday or every 1st & 3rd Tuesday), as well as a reminder of future appointments. calentool also permits other user's schedules to be accessed and also provides interesting information about the sun and moon.

   The interface uses XView (2.X or 3.X) to present an Open Look style user interface (including the Help key!).

   The latest version of calentool, 2.3X, is available for ftp from:

   ftp.x.org:/contrib/office/calentool-2.3.tar.gz

5. k-lendars, developed by Jean-Michel Leon, is a multi-user/multi-calendar diary with a Motif interface. Multi-user functionality, is optional and k-lendars may be used in single-user mode with one or more calendars.

   Requires procmail, slocal, etc. for multi-user communications.

   The latest version, 1.2, is available for ftp at:

   ftp://avahi.inria.fr:/pub/k-lendars-1.2.tar.gz

   ftp.x.org:/contrib/applications/k-lendars-1.2.tar.gz

6. plan, developed by Thomas Driemeyer, is a Motif-based calendar and group scheduler application.

   The latest version, is available for ftp at:

   ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/graphics/plan

7. XDiary, developed by Roger Larsson, is a personal organizer that combines the functions of a desktop calendar, an appointment book and an alarm clock; it can also be used as a group calendar to plan meetings, distribute information to specific groups etc. It features:
   
   • A calendar with a month view;
   • a day view where entries can be defined, moved, changed and removed;
   • an appointment editor for entering appointments, making notes and defining alarms;
   • the ability to print selected parts of the diary on any ASCII or PostScript printer;
   • an access control window to allow people access to your calendar(s);
   • various tools to write scripts that access the XDiary calendars.

   The latest version, 3.0 is available for ftp at:
   ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/office/xmdiary-3.0.tar.gz

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