About

Ideas is a simple tool for keeping notes, lists, and ideas close at hand. It lets you quickly add, view, or edit your notes and will save them to a git repo. That way your notes will stay backed up and access.

Setup

• Create a new, private git repo. And name it something like my-ideas.

• Install fzf if you don't already have it

  • For MacOS: brew install fzf
  • If you prefer to use skim, put export SELECTOR="sk" in your shell's config file.

• Clone this repo and your private repo.

  • git clone https://github.com/you/private-repo.git
  • git clone https://github.com/adamtabrams/ideas.git

• Add the executable to your path. Here are some options for how:

  • Add the whole directory: export PATH="$HOME/repos/ideas:$PATH"
  • Copy into current path: cp ideas ~/.local/bin/
  • Link to it (my favorite): ln -s ~/repos/ideas/ideas ~/.local/bin/ideas

• Set ideas to use your private repo ideas init ~/repo/your-private-repo

Usage

Create new ideas with ideas new or ideas add

View or edit existing ideas with ideas or ideas NAME

Remove unneeded ideas with ideas rm

Ideas automatically handles keeping your private repo synced