[mstipetic]

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

[OJFord]

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.

[sundarurfriend]

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.

[dkarl]

People have invented so many things similar but not identical to recutils that I wonder why you think recutils is the solution that everyone should converge on.

[leobg]

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

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

[mstipetic]

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

[shakna]

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

[allarm]

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

[mbo]

Aren't the hashcards complaint recutils files too?

[blitz_skull]

Inform me please. Never heard of it.

[OJFord]

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.

[zetalyrae]

I actually know about Recfiles lol.