I wish more people knew about GNU recutils instead of inventing new formats

I like recfiles, it's been a while but I started on Rust helpers (OP project is in rust) if it's any use: https://github.com/OJFord/recfiles-rs

Not abandoned exactly, I just haven't been working on the project that I wanted it for in gosh has it been that long.

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sundarurfriend 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wish there were more/better tools for working with recutils. I had a phase of trying to use recutils wherever it made sense, a few years ago, but the format has a lot of redundancy (not a bad thing in itself), and editor support to make working with that easier was basically non-existent (perhaps it exists only for Emacs). Using the command-line interface for everything was way too cumbersome. Visidata claimed to support the format, which got me excited, but in my experience it mangled the file if you had anything more than a basic set of records, and the support for display too was overall very rudimentary.

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shakna 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The mascot doesn't really help with adoption of the format.

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allarm 12 hours ago | parent [-]

No one cares about their mascot that much, of course. Say hi to Fred and George!

	▲	shakna 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Eight years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15302279 I mean... Its even in the FAQ. It's a question people care to ask.

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leobg 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Guilty as charged. First time I hear about it. Thanks. Looks like a natively LLM friendly database format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recutils

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mstipetic 2 days ago | parent [-]

Yes! I have a whole blog post in the works about how they make an awesome LLM memory layer.

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knowsuchagency 2 days ago | parent [-]

Could you link to it? I'd love to read it. This is also my first time learning of recutils

	▲	leobg 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Dito. (Or MeeToo, +1, or whatever the hell people say these days.)

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mbo 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Aren't the hashcards complaint recutils files too?

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blitz_skull 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Inform me please. Never heard of it.

	▲	OJFord 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		You could think of it like markdown but for structured data, with a spec for how to do that and a utility for querying them.

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zetalyrae 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I actually know about Recfiles lol.