Pickdate

fastly select date via vim-motions and print it to stdout

Install

arch linux:

yay -S install pickdate 

manualy:

git clone git@github.com:maraloon/pickdate.git
cd pickdate
go install

Usage idea

It's for what i develop this app. Terminal-based notes. Open (or create) file for selected date

#!/usr/bin/env sh
prev_selected_date=$(date +"%Y/%m/%d")
while true
do 
    selected_date=$(pickdate -m --start-at $prev_selected_date) || exit 1
    nvim "$HOME/diary/$selected_date.md" # opens diary/2025/01/15.md
    prev_selected_date=$selected_date # alows to stay in selected date after quit editor
done

Flags

Usage: pickdate [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -f, --format string     Format of date output (default "yyyy/mm/dd")
  -h, --help              Help
  -m, --monday            Monday as first day of week
      --start-at string   Pointed date on enter (default today)
  -s, --sunday            Sunday as first day of week (default true)

--format values

You can use both left and right format types

Set custom colors for days

You can send string to stdin to set custom colors for each day.
String format: color1:day1,day2;color2:day3,day31
color - [0-15] or hex (#b16286)
day - 2006/01/02

example: echo "#b16286:2025/08/10,2025/08/11;#d79920:2025/08/12" | pickdate

TODO

• Show today, style
• Help menu
• Jumps
  • Jump to today
  • Month jump
    • p, n
    • m[1-12]
  • Year jump
    • P, N
    • y[1-12]
  • Jump in line: 3l - 3 days later
  • Jump n month up/down: 3ml/3m - 3 month down
  • Jump lines: 2j - 2 weeks later
  • Jump to selected day: d[1-31]/31g/31<cr> will jump on 31th day of current month
• Lists
  • Month list (M)
  • Year list (Y)
• View
  • Show 3 month view
  • Show full year view
  • Change colors via config
• Toggle fullsceen (WithAltScreen)
• Center align
• Toggle week start, monday or sunday
• CLI opts
  • Week first day
  • Output date format
  • --start-at date
  • Fullscreen
• aur
  • stable
  • git version

Made with

It depends on datepicker bubble, which you can use in your go apps too