What is it

It records lines of text and the times at which you started and completed entering them. Entering a line of text containing only a single period will finish a session of adding text.

You can view your monologue complete with timestamps, too.

Why'd you write it?

• to make something slightly less trivial in Haskell

An example

allkinds:pb ellis$ monologue make stream-o-consciousness
I would like to think
that this program
is perfect
for making
very
very
bad
poetry
.
allkinds:pb ellis$ monologue add stream-o-consciousness 
yes,
terrible poetry.
.
allkinds:pb ellis$ monologue read stream-o-consciousness 
================================================================================
stream-o-consciousness
================================================================================
2011 09/01 23:15:39 I would like to think
                 44 that this program
                 46 is perfect
                 48 for making
                 50 very
                 52 very
                 53 bad
                 54 poetry
                 56 .
              16:11 yes,
                 14 terrible poetry.
                 20 .
allkinds:pb ellis$ 

How to build it

Have the Haskell platform installed and run

cabal install --prefix=$HOME --user

in this directory. This should create a monologue executable in something like your ~/bin directory.

How to run it

You can make new monologues and either read or add to existing monologues.

monologue make my_soliloquy creates the file my_soliloquy and starts adding text to it.

monologue add my_soliloquy adds text to my_soliloquy.

monologue read my_soliloquy prints the text recorded in my_soliloquy, complete with timestamps.