geeknote.el

Use Evernote in Emacs through geeknote

Dependencies

Geeknote

This package assumes that you have the geeknote command in your $PATH. To obtain this command, please refer to the official geeknote documentation.

Sometimes, geeknote HEAD will have bugs. If so, commit 192a0c5 is tested to work properly. You can checkout that revision if needed.

Emacs config

Because of the way geeknote works, it is expected that you have emacs running in server or daemon mode. Either of the two should work:

# In your init.el/.emacs
(server-start)

# Or by running this in your shell
$ emacs --daemon

Usage

Configuration

It is recommended that the geeknote command is present in your $PATH. If so, no further configuration is needed. However, if you would prefer to reference geeknote from another location, you can do so by customizing the variable geeknote-command.

(setq geeknote-command "python ~/path/to/geeknote.py")

This package expects emacsclient to be defined as your geeknote editor. You can set it up by running this command in your terminal:

$ geeknote settings --editor "emacsclient"

Commands

Create

geeknote-create: Create a new note.

You can specify a notebook in the title string using the @ prefix, like so:

notetitle @notebookname

Similarly, you can specify tags using the # prefix:

notetitle #tag1, tag2

This means you can create a note in your desired notebook and tag it in one shot:

notetitle @notebookname #tag1, tag2

If the notebook and the tags are non-existent, they will be created.

Edit

geeknote-edit: Edit a note by title or index.

Notes can be written in markdown. Most markdown are correctly displayed in Evernote.

Find

geeknote-find: Use a keyword to search notes by title and content.

The index of the results can be used as an argument to another geeknote command.

Show

geeknote-show: Show a note in a non-editable Emacs buffer.

Remove

geeknote-remove: Delete a note.

Move

geeknote-move: Move a note to a different notebook.

Buffer Lists

geeknote-notebook-list: Show an interactive list of notebooks (top 100). geeknote-tag-list: Show an interactive list of tags (top 100).

In the buffers, clicking or pressing enter will trigger a find/search with that tag or with that notebook. Also there is some key navigation bound to the geeknote-mode

 "q" kill-this-buffer
 "j" next-line
 "k" previous-line

Indexes

Geeknote's indexes still work in this package. For example, you can search for a note beforehand and use the note's index as an argument to geeknote-edit

# `geeknote-find` output
1: A note
2: The note you like to edit
3: Some other note

# `geeknote-edit` the second result
(geeknote-edit 2)

This also applies when a command is called interactively.

Keybindings

This package does not define any keybindings at the moment. Feel free to define your own keybindings for each command, like so:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c g c") 'geeknote-create)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c g e") 'geeknote-edit)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c g f") 'geeknote-find)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c g s") 'geeknote-show)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c g r") 'geeknote-remove)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c g m") 'geeknote-move)

Alternatives/Inspiration

You can check out evernote-mode, an Emacs package that integrates Evernote with org-mode. Sublime Text also has an excellent Evernote plugin.