Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: zzyzx
Version: 2016.4.0
Summary: A simple IMAP Notes backup tool.
Home-page: http://github.com/ambv/zzyzx
Author: Łukasz Langa
Author-email: lukasz@langa.pl
License: UNKNOWN
Description: =====
        zzyzx
        =====
        
        Do you believe in the cloud? It's in fact only somebody else's computer.
        Those might fail or get hacked.
        
        Do you believe in bug-free software? Nah, it's more likely every now and
        then a crash, a bug, a race condition or some other back luck will lead
        to data corruption of the things that you work on.
        
        Do you think you'll be able to access your notes in thirty years? It's
        likely the data format they're stored in is going to be hard to read.
        
        This is why I store all my notes in my e-mail. It's been there since the
        1970s, it's going to be there in the 2050s. MIME and IMAP ensure the
        data is more-less plaintext and easily human-readable even without any
        tool support. Apple Notes support it on both OS X and iOS. Pure win.
        
        But wait, what about software failure? What if a bug erases my notes or
        there's a data center fire and the data restored from a backup is in
        a state from two days ago? What about bitrot?
        
        Enter ``zzyzx``.
        
        This is the most primitive backup system ever. Set it up in cron on your
        laptop or a server you control and it will create incremental backups
        with history between runs (setting up a Mercurial repository). It also
        creates useful symlinks to human-readable note titles so you can find
        them more easily.
        
        
        Installation
        ------------
        
        It requires Python 3.5+ and Click. Just install it from PyPI::
        
           $ pip install zzyzx
           $ cat >~/.zzyzx
           [server]
           host=mail.example.com
           user=john@example.com
           pass=secret
        
           [backup]
           repo_path=~/Notes
           ignore_prefix=INBOX.Notes
           $ zzyzx
        
        
        Why the name ``zzyzx``?
        -----------------------
        
        It's the last place on Earth. It's the end of the world.
        
        
        Known issues
        ------------
        
        Don't put the repo path in Dropbox as it doesn't support symlinks and
        your other computers will see a lot of duplicate files.
        
        
        Changes
        -------
        
        2016.4.0
        ~~~~~~~~
        
        * first published version
        
        
        Authors
        -------
        
        Glued together by `Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>`.
        
Platform: any
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only
