What is Pimalaya

Pimalaya is a project that builds open-source tools for personal information management (also known as PIM), which includes emails, contacts, calendars, tasks and more.

So far we built low-level libraries, CLIs, TUIs, and we plan to expand to Android apps and Native OS applications.

Why a blog

What Pimalaya has used for a while:

• Website: the front door. What Pimalaya is, and where everything else lives.
• GitHub: the code, the bug reports, and the design discussions that lead to decisions.
• Matrix: real-time chat and support. Nothing said there is meant to last.
• Mastodon: the megaphone. Short announcements pointing at something durable.

What it never had is a durable place, where the project's direction gets written down in full sentences: why a release took the shape it did, what is coming next, and what got retired along the way. This blog is that place. The RSS feed and the newsletter are just two read-only views on it: subscribe to whichever fits your reading habits.

What to expect

Three kinds of posts, all in the same half-technical register.

• Journal and news: the running account of the project, on both the PIM domain side and the technical side (what is being built, reworked, or retired, and why). This is the logbook behind the short Mastodon announcements.
• Architecture and design: the reasoning behind how Pimalaya is built. These posts lean more technical than domain: the choices, the trade-offs, the alternatives that were rejected, and the patterns shared across the libraries and the applications.
• Releases, in depth: when something ships, the release post goes further than a changelog. What changed for users, what changed under the hood, and the decisions behind both.

See you in the feed.

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