longnote

Terminal function for quick note-taking with date and tags.

To make a minimal note while doing whatever it is you do on your computer,

• open terminal with spotlight
• type n "your note" "a tag" hit enter
• command + h to hide terminal

View your longnote by

• opening spotlight and typing longnote; you should be able to read your notes without opening the file, or
• navigate to the file and press space to preview file, or
• open the file in a csv viewer, such as excel

To do

• enable line breaks, quotation marks and other icky characters
• cleanly display previous n notes in terminal
• don't require quote marks
• pick date format
• once columns are off, they stay off – guarantee that each new entry starts in the first column
• preview methods only work while there are few notes...
• instead of adding tags as second argument, make any word after hash a tag