/tnote

A command line note taking app so simple that even your granny will love it!

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

tnote

Forked from https://github.com/prodicus/tnote

GitHub license Supported python versions Requirements Status

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A dead simple command line note taking app built for you!

Index

Demo

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Watch a live demo of it working here

asciicast

Here's the link to previous version if you are interested!

Features

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  • Dead simple to use: Even your granny would be able to use it. No seriously!
  • Feature rich Add your precious note with it's title , content , tags
  • Secure: Encrypts your database using standard AES-256 in CBC mode. So even if anybody gets hand of your database file. He cannot make any sense of it. A little demo of what I am doing using it

NOTE This feature is available/tested only on linux based systems. Support for other OS's coming soon!

  • Text Highlighting is cross platform - Supports Linux, Windows, MAC for the terminal based highlighting.
  • Searching for notes is hassle free in tnote: It supports full text search for notes based on content, tags
    • The search query if found in the database will be highlighted if found. Looks pleasing to the eyes
  • Ability to add and remove tags for each note.
  • Adds timestamp for each note which has been added.
  • Written in uncomplicated python.

Need I say more?

Installation

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Installing dependencies

NOTE

On linux system, install libsqlcipher-dev

$ sudo apt-get install libsqlcipher-dev

On Mac OS systems, you can install it by

$ brew install sqlcipher

Clone it

$ git clone https://github.com/prodicus/tnote
$ cd tnote && pip install -r requirements.txt

Add a symbolic link to it

$ chmod +x tnote
$ cd ~/bin/ 
$ ln -s ~/some/path/to/tnote

Replace ~/some/path/to/tnote by the path where you have cloned the repo. For example if you have cloned it to ~/Downloads/tnote folder than your command should look something like

$ ln -s ~/Downloads/tnote/tnote

Run it

Fire it up! 🌋

$ tnote

Supported platforms

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OS Support status
Linux ✅ Full support
OS X ✅ Full support
Windows ☑️ encrytion of the Database for windows not yet supported

To-do

  • Add unit tests. Like real quick!
  • Make it pip installable
  • Ability to edit the content of a note
  • Add python2 support
  • Add tags support for notes
  • Remove tahs for notes
  • Add option to add title for notes
  • Add option to remove title for notes
  • Add option to search for notes using content
  • Add option to search for notes using tags
  • Add option to search for notes using title
  • Add option to search for notes using timestamp
  • Encrypt the .db file using Sqlcipher
  • Add colorized text to the notes for improved UI
  • Add better UI using urwid

Motivation

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Why not! Cheers to a crazy weekend 😄

License

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Built under MIT License