📝 Notebook (Python)

A modular Python notebook application enabling users to write, organize, and manage plain-text notes or code snippets. Ideal for lightweight journaling, quick references, or code snippet storage—all accessible via a simple CLI or script.

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📋 Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Features
3. Requirements
4. Installation
5. Usage
6. Code Structure
7. Enhancement Opportunities
8. Contributing
9. License

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💡 Overview

This project offers a clean Python-based notebook-style tool for organizing notes and code snippets in text files. With CLI commands for creating, editing, and searching notes, it’s perfect for developers, students, or anyone tracking ideas and code.

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✅ Features

• 🆕 Create new notes with titles and tags
• 📝 Append or edit existing notes
• 🔍 Search notes by keywords, tags, or dates
• 📂 List all notes with title and timestamp
• 💾 Organized storage in a structured folder (e.g., notes/2025-06-)

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🧾 Requirements

• Python 3.7+
• Uses only the standard library (argparse, os, datetime, re)

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⚙️ Installation

git clone https://github.com/MisaghMomeniB/Notebook-Python.git
cd Notebook-Python

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🚀 Usage

Run commands via the script:

# Create a new note
python notebook.py new --title "Project Ideas" --tags python,automation

# Append to an existing note
python notebook.py edit --title "Project Ideas"

# Search notes for keywords or tags
python notebook.py search --query automation

# List all notes
python notebook.py list

Tip: use your $EDITOR (e.g., Vim, Nano, VSCode) for editing when prompted.

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📁 Code Structure

Notebook-Python/
├── notebook.py         # Main CLI entry & command handling
├── notes/              # Folder to store note .txt files
│   └── YYYY-MM-DD_Title_tags.txt
└── README.md           # This file

• The notebook.py script:

  • Uses argparse for subcommands: new, edit, list, search
  • Manages text files with metadata in filenames or file headers
  • Leverages re and datetime for searching and ordering

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💡 Enhancement Opportunities

• 🔐 Add optional encryption or password protection
• 🎨 Build a web or GUI interface using Flask or Tkinter
• 📁 Support Markdown preview or export (HTML/PDF)
• 🧠 Introduce tag-based filtering, metadata JSON index, or search indexing
• 🧩 Add note versioning or backups

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🤝 Contributing

Got ideas or improvements? Contributions are welcome!

1. Fork the repo
2. Create a feature branch (feature/...)
3. Add tests and document your changes
4. Submit a Pull Request with clear descriptions

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📄 License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.