note is a utility to quickly note something down without leaving the terminal.
You can download the latest verions of note (via this repository) and you can then source the note.sh file in your bash profile. You can see an example of how I did it in my dotfiles (see plugins.sh and plugins.txt).
git clone --branch 1.0.0 git@github.com/mattmezza/note.git note && source note/note.shnote should be compatible with any *nix OS but it has been tested with macOS Catalina (and the prev version).
note uses a default directory as database. This directory defaults to $HOME/notes but can be changed by altering the environment variable NOTE_DEFAULT_SCRATCH_DIR.
Usage:
$ note list|l
$ note new|n name
$ note open|o name
$ note path|p
$ note path|p name
$ note rm name
$ note last
Your scratch notes dir is: '/Users/matt/klm/notes'
Lists all the notes that have been taken until this point. They are ordered by default in chronological ASC order.
Quickly opens up your favorite text editor with a file named using the current datetime and the specified name: note new marketing-meeting creates a file 201911011501-marketing-meeting.txt
Quickly opens up with your favorite editor a note that you already took. The name must be matching with the actual filename (including the datetime part and the file extension).
Prints back to the stdout the path of the directory used as a database for all the notes. By default, this value should be $HOME/notes but it can be altered by setting the environment variable NOTE_DEFAULT_SCRACTH_DIR.
Prints back to the stdout the full path of a note that you already took. The name must be matching with the actual filename (including the datetime part and the file extension).
Prints back to the stdout the full path of the last note that you already took. You can use this command in combination with note open $(note path last) or note rm $(note path last) to quickly edit or remove the most recent note.
Prompts you to remove the note identified by the name. The name must be matching with the actual filename (including the datetime part and the file extension).
Prints back to the stdout the full path of the last note that you already took. You can use this command in combination with note open $(note last) or note rm $(note last) to quickly edit or remove the most recent note.
Developing this utility is quite easy: just clone this repo and start editing the note.sh file. You can always source note.sh in your current shell as you develop it to try out your modifications.