![]() There are probably a raft of improvements that could be made to "note" - but I just haven't had the time, or the inclination. path to default text editor, path to default pager, whether or not to keep any backup files created by the text editor. To allow my note application to be useful to others - I have also created a configuration program called notesettings - which allows users to set up a couple of simple options.Į.g. So my work PC has one set of notes and my personal laptop has another set of notes! I don't generally transfer notes to other machines - I use note to keep notes on individual machines. tar.gz, which I can copy to another machine. Or just to record some random thoughts.Īnd to export my notes, I just have a -backup command that creates a. If I find out some new programming trick, or I need to make some notes for a course I'm doing. So I use my note application (note) for taking detailed, general notes.Į.g. If the specified file already exists in my notes directory - it gets opened in my default text editor (vim), if it doesn't exist - the editor opens a new file with the specified name and it gets saved to my notes directory. I even have it set up to read my notes to me using espeak in a Brummie (Birmingham, UK) accent.īut most importantly I can quickly load/edit/create my notes in the terminal, regardless of where I am in the file-system using: I can view notes in a terminal based pager like more, or less, or a browser like w3m, or lynx. I can search for notes containing a search term/key-word. I can list all notes alphabetically, or by file-size. It collects all of my notes in a single directory. So far, it probably just serves as a bad example of yet another note-taking application in bash, ha ha!īut it does everything I need. A few years ago, I uploaded it to a git repository at and publicly released it, in case anybody else found it remotely useful. ![]() I created it 8 years ago and have used it almost every single day since. ![]()
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