Notebook

• A plain text note-taking assistant
• Leverage Nostr as an external database
• View your nostr published notes on Ixian

Setup Nostr

Notebook interacts with nostr via long-form notes, as depicted in NIP-23.

If you want to use nostr as an external database to store and propagate your notes, you have to create a config file and set the NOSTR env var:

Create your config file in ~/.config/nostr/dextryz.json containing:

{
    "nsec": "nsec..."
    "relays": ["wss://relay.highlighter.com/", "wss://relay.damus.io/"],
}

and set the env var

> export NOSTR=~/.config/nostr/dextryz.json`

Initialize a New Notebook

To start you have to initiate a notebook:

> export NOTEBOOk=/tmp/slipbox
> nz init

• Is nostr is setup, notebook will populate the NOTEBOOK path with all your kind 30023 notes.

Create a New Note

The following command will create a new markdown file in your notebook directory.

> nz new
created file in notebook slipbox at:
/tmp/slipbox/202404041212.md

• The filename is the article identifier as specified in NIP-23.

Edit a Note

Open the note with your favourite editor (hopefully NeoVim) and update the content.

Publish a Note to Nostr

If you have nostr setup, you can push your note with a title and set of tags. The note will be published to all relays specified in the NOSTR config file.

> nz push --content /tmp/slipbox/202404051040.md --title "Hello Friend" --tag nostr --tag bitcoin

Search Notes

./nb search --title Intuition

./nb search --tag focus