Sigi
Sigi is an organizing tool and no-frills stack database.
It's primarily intended for you to use as extra memory. Use it to organize your tasks, groceries, or the next board games you want to play.
Sigi is also a stack-management tool. It can be used as disk-persistent stack memory, for example, in a shell script or in Rust code. (And more languages in the future!)
sigi 0.2.4
An organizational tool.
USAGE:
sigi [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [SUBCOMMAND]
FLAGS:
-h, --help Prints help information
-q, --quiet Omit any leading labels or symbols. Recommended for use in shell scripts
-s, --silent Omit any output at all.
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-t, --stack <STACK> Manage items in a specific stack [aliases: topic, about, namespace]
SUBCOMMANDS:
complete Mark the current item as successfully completed [aliases: done, finish, fulfill]
create Create a new item [aliases: push, add, do, start, new]
delete Delete the current item [aliases: pop, remove, cancel, drop, abandon, retire]
delete-all Delete all items [aliases: purge, pop-all, remove-all, cancel-all, drop-all, abandon-all, retire-all]
help Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
is-empty Determine if stack is empty [aliases: empty]
length Count all items [aliases: count, size]
list List all items [aliases: ls, show, all, list-all]
move Move current item to destination
move-all Move all items to destination stack
next Move the next item to current, and moves current to last [aliases: later, punt, bury]
peek Peek at the current item (This is the default behavior when no command is given) [aliases: show]
pick Move the specified indices to the top of stack
rot Rotate the three most-current items [aliases: rotate]
swap Swap the two most current items
Motivation
Sigi is the Chamorro word for continue. I hope it will help you to plan more, forget less, get things 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.
I also just like stacks, and stack-based languages like Forth and Factor are a joy to play with.
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 flag that indicates a unique list.
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 (create an item) and pop
(remove an item and return it) idioms.
Using the --quiet (or -q) flag is recommended for shell scripts, as it
leaves out any leading labels or symbols.
TODO: Need an example, maybe a reverse polish notation calculator in bash?
Installing
Command-line interface (CLI)
Currently 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:
In the future I plan to distribute sigi through more package managers.
Library
Sigi is available as a Rust library via crates.io.
It is still in active, unstable development, so I suggest not doing anything ambitious until stable versions (i.e. >= 1.0) become available.
In the future I plan to provide wrappers through other languages. Also, the implementation language is possibly subject to change.
Similar projects
If sigi doesn't do quite what you want, check out these similar projects. Sigi was created before I found these, but some inspiration may be gleaned from them for improvement. Most in this list predate sigi by several years.
Similar CLIs
- devtodo - A hierarchical command-line task manager
- dstask - Single binary terminal-based TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes per task
- grit - Multitree-based task manager
- node-todo-cli - A command line program that manages todo tasks
- py-todo-cli - A simple command line Todo program written in Python
- taskell - Command-line Kanban board/task management
- taskwarrior - Taskwarrior is Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from the command line
- tax - CLI task list manager
- todo cli - Todo CLI is a simple program that uses a sqlite3 database to keep track of your tasks
- todo.txt - Future-proof task tracking in a file you control
Similar CLI Definitions
- gophercises #7: task - TODO CLI definition. (Defines a CLI)
- pushpop - "Mental stack manager" definition. (Defines both a GUI and CLI)
- See also implementations in sh, power shell
Similar non-CLI apps
- Too many to count. TODO apps are kind of the canonical JavaScript "first big project." They're also ubiquitous in mobile app stores.
Similar Databases
- piladb - Stack-based database. (A working REST API and Database)