Little Note

Like a diary, but simpler.

Use

Thought of something? Write it down:

$ littlenote

# $EDITOR opens on a new date/time-stamped file
# Write down your thoughts...

Put notes in their place:

$ littlenote -d ~/some/place/for/notes/

Configure

Optionally, configuration lives in a YAML file called $HOME/.littlenote:

directory: /Users/foo/some/place/for/notes

Other Commands

You can easily see the content of all of today's notes:

$ littlenote show
# all today's notes are paged through less
# ...

Or see older notes by passing a query parameter in the form number unit (without a space):

$ littlenote show 3d
# See notes from the last 3 days

$ littlenote show 2w
# See notes from the last 14 days

$ littlenote show 1m
# See notes from the last 31 days

$ littlenote show 1y
# See notes from the last 365 days

$ littlenote show 1
# Default unit is 'days'

You can get a list of the file paths of all notes within a given date range:

$ littlenote list
# List of all files written today

$ littlenote 365d
# List of all files written in the last 365 days

$ littlenote 5w
# List of all files written in the last 5 weeks

$ littenote 9m
# List of all files written in the last 9 months

$ littenote 10y
# List of all files written in the last 10 years

You can start editing a new note containing the content of the previous note using the "cont" command:

$ littlenote cont

# $EDITOR opens on a new date/time-stamped file
# containing the contents of the previous file

You can configure the cont command to only continue from files containing a matched pattern.

Edit your ~/.littlenote config file to include the pattern:

directory: /some/path/to/my/files
continuation_matcher: my-pattern

Note: the continuation match pattern is supplied as an argument to grep. You can test your pattern by running something like this:

grep "my-pattern" /some/path/to/my/files/*.md