Calcurse Text Calendar Scheduling

---
name: "calcurse Text-Based Calendar and Scheduling Application"
slug: "calcurse-text-calendar-scheduling"
description: "calcurse is a text-based calendar and scheduling application for the command line. It helps keep track of events, appointments, and everyday tasks with a curses-based TUI, configurable notifications, and CalDAV synchronization support."
github_stars: 1235
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/lfos/calcurse"
category: "Calendar, Email & Productivity"
framework: "Custom Agents"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "lfos/calcurse"
  github_stars: 1235
---

# calcurse Text-Based Calendar and Scheduling Application

calcurse is a text-based calendar and scheduling application for the command line. It helps keep track of events, appointments, and everyday tasks with a curses-based TUI, configurable notifications, and CalDAV synchronization support.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- $ make
- $ make install

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- [![Lint Python](https://github.com/lfos/calcurse/actions/workflows/lint_python.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/lfos/calcurse/actions/workflows/lint_python.yml)

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- calcurse is available on a number of Linux distributions:
- [![Packaging status](https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/calcurse.svg?columns=3)](https://repology.org/project/calcurse/versions)
- ## Building from Source

- Source: https://github.com/lfos/calcurse
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lfos/calcurse/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/calcurse-text-calendar-scheduling/)