# 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.

- Skill: `agentskillexchange/calcurse-text-based-calendar-and-scheduling-application` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add agentskillexchange/calcurse-text-based-calendar-and-scheduling-application`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/agentskillexchange/calcurse-text-based-calendar-and-scheduling-application/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Productivity
- Author: agentskillexchange (https://skillmd.com/u/agentskillexchange)
- Updated: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/agentskillexchange/calcurse-text-based-calendar-and-scheduling-application

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# 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/)