Alas can help you keep in touch with your contacts - family, friends and other people you know. Alas tracks when you last heard from a person and schedules a new task to contact the person if you didn’t hear from them in a while. Alas can also schedule a reminder for a birthday.
Each contact is stored in a separate Markdown file. All contact files should be in a single directory, separate from other Markdown files. For example:
├── contacts
│ ├── john-doe.md
│ ├── mary-doe.md
│ ├── jack-black.md
│ ├── ...
├── diary.md
├── plan.md
└── scheduled.md
Each contact file has the same structure - the contact name, details and the log of communication.
# John Doe
- Birthday: 04-27
- Category: B
## 2022-02-15
Talked over the phone about stuff.
## 2022-01-28
Grabbed a beer and talked about stuff.
The first line is the title that holds the contact name.
Then, there’s a list of details. Each detail has the same structure:
- Detail name: Detail value
A contact can have as many details as you need. However, 2 details are special:
Birthday and Category.
If a contact has a Birthday detail and the value matches today’s date, Alas
will schedule a reminder to congratulate the person’s birthday.
A contact Category can have one of these 4 values: A, B, C and D. The
idea was taken from Derek Siver’s article where
categories are defined as: