If anyone is interested in the halfway point between Geeknote & a random collection of .txt files in $HOME, meet me in the middle with 'not (note w/o the [e]vernote)', a low-friction, dumb as rocks, evernote based notekeeping thing.
i need to take notes on a daily basis, but i hate all note taking software
i just want to scratch down some crap in vi and save it somewhere safe and synced
Geeknote is cool (and largely inspired not), but it's super feature rich and requires extra brain workyness that I don't often have.
not and I'm done
for regular pip install:
pip install not
if you are cool, use pex!
pex not -c not -o ~/bin/not && pex not -c not-setup -o ~/bin/not-setup
then run the setup script:
not-setup
not -- creates or updates a note using your favorite editor, stored in default notebook, named after today's date
not some_title same thing, but instead of todays date it's whatever custom title you wrote
piping via stdin also works for ultimate lazyness:
echo 'wow I am so lazy' | not
to add tags, simply add a line to your note that starts with "tags:" and then a comma separated list
for example: tags: these,are,tags
don't remember the last couple notes you edited? just run
not ls
it will return a list of the last 10ish edited notes
- all notes are plaintext
- no notebook customization, just the default notebook
- line breaks and html aren't handled that well, sorry
- open to pull requests as long as the philosophy remains unchanged