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 3.1.1
An organizing tool for terminal lovers who hate organizing
USAGE:
sigi [OPTIONS] [SUBCOMMAND]
OPTIONS:
-f, --format <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 <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:
complete Move the current item to "<STACK>_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 "<STACK>_history" and mark as deleted [aliases: pop,
remove, cancel, drop]
delete-all Move all items to "<STACK>_history" and mark as deleted [aliases: purge, pop-
all, remove-all, cancel-all, drop-all]
head List the first N items (default is 10) [aliases: top, first]
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
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 List all items [aliases: ls, snoop, show, all]
list-stacks List 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 Show the first item. This is the default 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 List the last N items (default is 10) [aliases: bottom, last]
The big idea
Sigi is the Chamorro word for continue. I hope it 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.
sigi is not intending to be highly performant. While no limits are enforced,
it would not handle high, concurrent throughput well. It also isn't suitable
for enormous amounts of data. For something beefier with stack semantics,
check out Redis.
Using the --quiet (or -q) flag is recommended for shell scripts, as it
leaves out any leading labels or symbols.
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:
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!