sigi

sigi is an organizing tool for terminal lovers who hate organizing

Use sigi as extra memory. Use it to toss your tasks, groceries, or the next board games you want to play onto a stack. Shell aliases are encouraged to organize your various stacks.

``` sigi 3.4.2 An organizing tool for terminal lovers who hate organizing

USAGE: sigi [OPTIONS] [SUBCOMMAND]

OPTIONS: -f, --format Use a programmatic format. Options include [csv, json, json-compact, tsv]. Not compatible with quiet/silent/verbose -h, --help Print help information -q, --quiet Omit any leading labels or symbols. Recommended for use in shell scripts -s, --silent Omit any output at all -t, --stack Manage items in a specific stack [aliases: topic, about, namespace] -v, --verbose Print more information, like when an item was created [aliases: noisy] -V, --version Print version information

SUBCOMMANDS: - Read input lines from standard input. Same commands as interactive mode, but only prints for printing commands. Intended for use in unix pipes complete Move the current item to "history" and mark as completed [aliases: done, finish, fulfill] count Print the total number of items in the stack [aliases: size, length] delete Move the current item to "history" and mark as deleted [aliases: pop, remove, cancel, drop] delete-all Move all items to "_history" and mark as deleted [aliases: purge, pop- all, remove-all, cancel-all, drop-all] head Print the first N items (default is 10) [aliases: top, first] help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s) interactive Run in an interactive mode [aliases: i] is-empty Print "true" if stack has zero items, or print "false" (and exit with a nonzero exit code) if the stack does have items [aliases: empty] list Print all items [aliases: ls, snoop, show, all] list-stacks Print all stacks [aliases: stacks] move Move current item to another stack move-all Move all items to another stack next Cycle to the next item; the current item becomes last [aliases: later, cycle, bury] peek Print the first item. This is the default CLI behavior when no command is given [aliases: show] pick Move items to the top of stack by their number push Create a new item [aliases: create, add, do, start, new] rot Rotate the three most-current items [aliases: rotate] swap Swap the two most-current items tail Print the last N items (default is 10) [aliases: bottom, last]

INTERACTIVE MODE:

Use subcommands in interactive mode directly. No OPTIONS (flags) are understood in interactive mode.

The following additional commands are available: ? Show the short version of "help" clear Clear the terminal screen stack Change to the specified stack quit/q/exit Quit interactive mode ```

The big idea

Sigi is the Chamorro word for continue. I hope this will help you to get on with your life, by helping you prioritize better, forget less, get some stuff done, and relax. 🌴

There's a limit to human memory, and remembering things uses up willpower. I like working at a command line, and wanted a tool to free me up from trying to juggle tasks and ideas.

On a more personal level, while I love beauty and craftsmanship and accomplishing things... I absolutely despise spending time organizing. A five factor personality evaluation rated me at 7% in the orderliness aspect of conscientousness, which (among other things) means I am both less disturbed by chaos and more disturbed by order than 92% of humankind.

sigi intends to be far more flexible and messy, and far less rigid and tidy, when compared to the plethora of personal and professional organizational tools that exist. It will let you write stuff down and look at that stuff when you want to. It's less like a Google/Outlook/Apple Calendar application and more like a pen-and-paper notebook.

I also just find that stacks, and stack-based languages like Forth and Factor are a joy to play with. Also, they're a good fit for organization. Usually older things that aren't "done" or "deletable" are things that can wait more than whatever things are actively being juggled.

Examples

sigi as a to-do list

sigi can understand do (create a task) and done (complete a task).

``` $ alias todo='sigi --stack todo'

$ todo do Write some code Creating: Write some code

$ todo do Get a drink Creating: Get a drink

$ todo do Take a nap Creating: Take a nap

$ todo list Now: Take a nap 1: Get a drink 2: Write some code

$ sleep 20m

$ todo done Completed: Take a nap ```

It's best to use sigi behind a few aliases with unique "stacks". You should save these aliases in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc or whatever your shell has for configuration. sigi accepts a --stack option, and you can have as many stacks as you can think of names.

Forgot what to do next?

$ todo Now: Get a drink

Not going to do it?

$ todo delete Deleted: Get a drink

sigi as a save-anything list

Extending the alias idea, you can use sigi to store anything you want to remember later.

``` $ alias watch-later='sigi --stack watch-later'

$ watch-later add One Punch Man Creating: One Punch Man ```

``` $ alias story-ideas='sigi --stack=story-ideas'

$ story-ideas add Alien race lives backwards through time. Creating: Alien race lives backwards through time. ```

sigi as a local stack-based database

sigi understands the programmer-familiar push and pop idioms. It can be used for simple, persistent, small-scale stack use-cases.

Using the --quiet (or -q) flag is recommended for shell scripts, as it leaves out any leading labels or symbols. If used with a pipe, it's recommended to use the - subcommand to read from standard input and only print if the action requested is a printing action (like list).

sigi is pretty fast: sub-millisecond for basic use cases. That said, it is not intended to handle large amounts of data, or concurrent throughput. For something beefier with stack semantics, check out Redis.

Installing

If your packaging system doesn't have it yet, the best way to install sigi is through the Rust language package manager, cargo:

cargo install sigi

Instructions on installing cargo can be found here:

• https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/getting-started/installation.html

Please package it up for your Linux/BSD/etc distribution.

Contributing and support

Please open an issue if you see bugs or have ideas!

I'm looking for people to use the sigi wiki to share their tips, tricks, and examples.

Thanks for checking it out!