schedline

Schedule any job for anyone anywhere — in one line.

A zero-dependency scheduling engine with a terse one-line grammar, an auto-registering store, three-lens conflict detection, and a read-only terminal viewer. Type a thought, it becomes a scheduled job.

$ schedline add 'kani: dropoff Tue,Thu 10:45-11:15 @kindergarten #care'
added: [1] kani: dropoff Tue,Thu 10:45-11:15 @kindergarten #care /personal

$ schedline add 'david: "AWS Arch" Mon 13:40-15:50 @room-204 #uni'
$ schedline add 'david: dentist Mon 14:30-15:30 @clinic #health'
added: [3] david: dentist Mon 14:30-15:30 @clinic #health /personal
  ⚠ double-booked: [2] david: AWS Arch Mon 13:40-15:50 @room-204 #uni /personal

Install

pip install schedline

The grammar

<who>: <what> <when> [@where] [#tag ...] [/namespace]

People, places, and tags auto-register on first use — there is no schema to edit before scheduling a new person or place.

Commands

schedline add "<line>"      parse a shorthand line and store it (warns on clashes)
schedline ls [filters]      list jobs    --ns --who --where --tag --day
schedline agenda [--day D]  day-by-day, conflict-flagged
schedline rm <id>           delete by id
schedline who | where       list known assignees / locations
schedline view              read-only curses viewer (calendar / swimlanes / dashboard)

sched is installed as a short alias for schedline.

Conflict detection

Every add checks three lenses (advisory — it warns, never blocks):

1. Person double-booked — same assignee, overlapping time.
2. Location occupied — same @place, overlapping time, different people.
3. Travel gap — same person, back-to-back jobs at different places with less than SCHEDLINE_TRAVEL_BUFFER minutes between them (default 30).

Store location

Jobs live in a single JSON file, resolved in this order:

1. --store <path>
2. $SCHEDLINE_STORE
3. $XDG_DATA_HOME/schedline/jobs.json (default ~/.local/share/schedline/jobs.json)

License

MIT