Jot

A Zettelkasten CLI helper written in Go

When Jot is ran without any additional arguments, it will open Neovim inside the ~/notes directory. To quickly create a new note, the executable can be run using all additional arguments as the title. A note is then created using the following template and opened in Neovim:

---
title: This Is A Zettel Title
date: 06/27/2024 02:30 AM
tags:
---

# This Is A Zettel Title

Configuration

You can create ~/.config/jot/config.yaml in order to adjust Jot how you like.

NotesDir: "/home/user/notes"
Editor: "nvim"
Template: "---\ntitle: $title\ndate: $date\ntags:\n---\n\n# $title"

Configuration Options:

NotesDir: The directory for your notes

Editor: The command to launch your editor (ie nvim not neovim)

Template: The template to use when creating a new note (use $date and $title if you wish to include those)

This project is created to help with the Zettelkasten method, but it does not have to be used solely for that purpose. However, I don't plan on adding anything more than needed to help with that method. This will hopefully keep the project fairly simple and focused.

If you're wondering what the heck is a Zettelkasten, you can learn more about it here:

Zettelkasten Introduction