dotfiles for command line superpowers

Organized dotfiles give you command line superpowers. This was heavily inspired by Getting Started With Dotfiles, which is a must-read.

Installation

1. git clone git@github.com:Aylr/dotfiles.git
2. IMPORTANT Backup your existing ~/.bash_profile, ~/.zshrc, and ~/.gitconfig or you will have data loss.
3. In the repo's .bash_profile, update the full path to this repo, including the trailing slash.
   • DOTFILE_DIR=/Users/taylor/repos/dotfiles/
4. Update the username and email address in the .gitconfig file.
5. From the repo directory, run brew.sh to install a few programs with brew.
6. From the repo directory, run install.sh. All this really does is drop symlinks into your home directory, which you can easily do yourself after you backup existing files!

Features

• Piles of useful aliases

• A nice themed neovim setup

• A lightning-quick journaling utility

  • View your current entry with jj
  • Create or edit the current day's entry with jj -e which uses your $EDITOR

  Journaler.
  
  If no date is specified, today will be used. Input can be piped in or added as
  a positional argument in a string. Piped input takes precedence.
  
  Arguments:
  -d --date         desired date for entry
  -b --base_dir     base directory to create files
  
  Options
  -e --edit         open entry in editor - uses \$EDITOR if available
  -h --help         show this help and exit
  -v --verbose      show verbose output
  
  Usage
  
  journal.sh                              View today's entry
  journal.sh -e                           Edit today's entry
  journal.sh "TIL something neat"         Add a note to today's entry
  journal.sh "TIL something neat" -e      Add a note to today's entry and edit
  journal.sh -d 2020-01-01                View the entry from 1/1/20
  cat file.txt | journal.sh               Pipe file.txt into today's entry

Notes

• Non secret exports are kept in bash/.exports
• Secret exports are kept in bash/.secrets, which are of course in the .gitignore

References

• Maximize Developer productivity on a Mac