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README.md

Game Log

RPGs I've played

About

This is a log of all the games I've played starting in 2021. I'm keeping this log in anticipation of writing a "Every game I played in 2021" blog post in 2022.

I decided to use recutils for this because, why not.

Getting Started

You don't need to install anything if you don't want to. You can just edit the rec file.

But if you want to use the TUI, then npm i and just new (or node bin/cli.js) to create a new entry using the interative prompt.

Dependencies

GNU recutils
node (optional)
just (optional)
csvkit (optional)

Considerations

What kind of stuff am I interested in keeping track of?

Role: Player or DM?
Format: In person? (Ha, one day.) Roll20/Discord? Play by post?
Length: One-shot, adventure, campaign?
Crew: Who did I play with?

Learnings

I think the main benefit to recutils is having a human readable, plain-text database that you can edit.

Querying and inserting is okay.

I don't have a use case for using Joins on records, but the fact that you can means that recutils is pretty robust

I think that recutils could be a really good format for easily tracking data in version control. It is a good "source" database that can then be exported to csv and SQL. csvkit, e.g., can output straight to sqlite

Recsel examples

recsel -e "Role = 'Player'" games.rec

See justfile for more examples

Todo

Add types/enums
~~tui?~~ run 'just new'
add Update to CLI