One idea is to use a spreadsheet as a back-end (like an iCloud-stored Numbers.app spreadsheet on macOS and a OneDrive Excel doc on Windows) with a simple human-editable structure, and your CLI tool is a front-end for interacting with it, exporting/importing from services, basically a value-add on top of a document that users could edit by hand.
i went back to editing a plain text file.
some day i want to get back to having a terminal tool, but the key features it needs to have are:
a way to edit fields all at once either using some nice TUI library where i can use tab and cursors to jump from field to field, or what git does, throw me into an editor to add the line.
it also needs to allow me to look at past entries somehow, to make it easy to add episodes/chapters/sequels without having to repeat all the data that is shared.
currently i do that by simply copying an old entry and editing that.
If you’re curious: https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri
(I have been working on this for years on and off, but now it’s finally going somewhere. Still not usable, though.)
I saw that you support fetching author information, etc, where are you sourcing that information?
I have prototyped a lot on this, but not published it yet. It works pretty well :)
When ready, these will be documented and extensible!
Short stories can be stand-alone (web based), found in an anthology, a book collection or published in a magazine.
What would be nice is a tool to track where I read a short story (in anthology A, for example), and where the story can be found, which may be in more than one place (in magazine B, collection C, on-line, etc.).
This is, unfortunately, also not supported in many other book sites like Goodreads, etc.
It'd be relatively easy to add, I don't have an example format
> catalogue new --numeric id, year, rating --text title, author
> catalogue show --column id --value 123
> catalogue show -c year -v 1984
> catalogue report -c author (would show generic "Count" rather than "Books read")
I've probably forgot some things as I'm just typing this out loud, but that's my general idea?
Would be nice to link to reflections.
Additionally, any thought given towards incorporating standard cataloging systems like Library of Congress?
I thought the reference simply was the word “book” in Italian.
Zotero is cool. Hits some of the same requirements here, I think.