aimcal 0.11.0

AIM - Analyze. Interact. Manage Your Time, with calendar support
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<h1 align="center">AIM</h1>
<h3 align="center">Analyze. Interact. Manage Your Time, with calendar support</h3>

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AIM is your intelligent assistant for managing time and tasks.
It **analyzes** your schedule using AI-driven insights,
**interacts** naturally to understand your needs and preferences,
and enables you to **manage** your time with clarity, control, and confidence.

Built on the [iCalendar standard (RFC 5545)](https://icalendar.org/RFC-Specifications/iCalendar-RFC-5545/)
and compatible with [CalDAV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV) servers like [Radicale](https://radicale.org/),
AIM ensures interoperability and flexibility across systems.
From smart reminders to personalized insights, AIM helps you work smarter, not harder.

## What AIM Provides

AIM is more than just a calendar tool—it's a comprehensive platform consisting of:

### Core Library

A comprehensive Rust library providing the foundation for calendar and task management, with:

- Event and todo data models and management
- Local SQLite storage with efficient querying
- Timezone-aware datetime handling
- Configuration management
- Short ID mapping for efficient references

### Comprehensive RFC 5545 Library

A robust Rust library for reading and writing iCalendar (RFC 5545) data with:

- Full RFC 5545 specification compliance
- RRULE (recurrence rule) support for recurring events
- Type-safe parsing and serialization
- Zero-copy parsing for optimal performance
- Extensive error reporting

### Command-Line Interface

An intuitive CLI for power users who prefer terminal-based workflows, featuring:

- Quick event and todo management
- Interactive TUI mode
- Multiple output formats (table, JSON)
- Shell completion support

### Chat Interface (Planned)

Natural language interface for interacting with your calendar through conversation, powered by LLMs
for intelligent command parsing and execution.

### REST API (Planned)

A complete web API for programmatic access, enabling:

- Third-party integrations
- Webhook support
- CalDAV synchronization
- Cross-platform accessibility

## Features

Built on top of the core libraries, AIM delivers these key capabilities:

- **RFC 5545 Compliance**: Full iCalendar standard support ensuring compatibility with Google
  Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, and other calendar applications
- **High-Performance Parsing**: Zero-copy parsing with the `aimcal-ical` library for efficient
  iCalendar data processing
- **Recurring Events**: RRULE support for complex recurring patterns (daily, weekly, monthly,
  yearly, and custom schedules)
- **Interactive TUI**: Terminal-based user interface with keyboard navigation for efficient
  calendar management
- **Smart Queries**: Filter and search events by date, location, summary, and custom properties
  with convenient short numeric IDs for quick event and todo references
- **Cross-Platform**: Runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows with consistent behavior
- **Developer-Friendly**: Modular library design lets you use individual components in your own
  Rust projects

## Usage

### ▶️ Run with Cargo

To run the CLI using Cargo:

```sh
cargo install aimcal
aim --help
```

### ❄️ Run with Nix

```sh
nix run . -- --help
```

## Goals

- **Enable command-line calendar management**: Perform queries and manage events and todos directly from the CLI.
- **Leverage LLMs for intelligent assistance**: Offer smart scheduling and reminder suggestions tailored to user preferences.
- **Integrate with external systems**: Support CalDAV providers and expose Webhook/REST APIs for triggers and calendar access.

## Roadmap

### 📅 Calendar Features

- [x] Listing events and todos
- [x] Creating and editing events and todos
- [ ] Undo history editing
- [ ] Full text search (grepping)
- [ ] Recurring events
- [ ] TUI: Markdown support

### 🤖 AI Capabilities

- [ ] AI operations: parse and execute user commands on calendar
- [ ] Intelligent suggestions
- [ ] Personalized experience

### 🔌 Integrations

- [ ] CalDAV support
- [ ] Webhook/REST API

## Acknowledgements

We'd like to thank all FOSS projects, particularly:

- [khal]https://github.com/pimutils/khal - A CLI calendar application
- [todoman]https://github.com/pimutils/todoman - A simple task manager
- [icalendar]https://github.com/hoodie/icalendar - icalendar library, in Rust of course

Their work has been a significant inspiration for AIM's design and functionality.

## Contribution

Any help in the form of descriptive and friendly [issues](https://github.com/yzx9/aim/issues) or
comprehensive pull requests are welcome!

Please check out [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for guidelines.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in
AIM by you, as defined in the [Apache-2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) license,
without any additional terms or conditions.

Thanks goes to these wonderful people:

[![Contributors](https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=yzx9/aim)](https://github.com/yzx9/aim/graphs/contributors)

## LICENSE

This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/">Apache-2.0</a>.

Copyright (c) 2025-2026, Zexin Yuan