📝 notes.sh

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🐧 About

Super-simple small bash (shell) script with zero dependencies, which manages notes with ease and grace of a terminal.

Create a dated text file at a specific location and append text to it. It's that simple!

Works literally on every Linux-like system. And probably should work on MacOS. If not, please open an issue.

NOTE (unintended pun):

Some features, such as: custom note creation template or dynamic folder resolution rely on git installed and on a .git folder inside of this repo.

🤟 Getting Started

1. Download the script

Using curl:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/novusnota/notes.sh/master/notes.sh

Or grab it from the latest Release

2. Installing

There are at least two ways:

1. Just place it somewhere and add an alias

Example:

alias note='path/to/somewhere/with/notes.sh'

2. Create a symbolic link somewhere on your PATH.

Examples:

# If you have a ~/.local/bin on your PATH
ln -s /path/to/somewhere/with/notes.sh ~/.local/bin/note

# Preferred way, would work on pretty much every Linux
sudo ln -s /path/to/somewhere/with/notes.sh /usr/local/sbin/note

# MacOS way:
## don't know much, but the principle is the same:
## get to know your PATH and create a link to notes.sh
## somewhere in that folders
##
## To print out PATH use:
echo $PATH | tr : '\n'

🧐 Usage

Append that text to the today's file:

note something you want to write down

Append your clipboard to the file:

# If you use xsel
xsel -bo | note

# If you use xclip
xclip -o | note

# If you use pbpaste (MacOS)
pbpaste | note

Open the file in your editor:

note

Append rather big text to the file:

# using cat <<EOF trick,
# don't forget to add
# EOF
# on the last line to stop
cat <<EOF | note

# or using backslash escapes - \
note \
    blah blah \
    more blah blah \
    the end. bye-bye\!
# note (xD), that tabs are not required.
# also keep in mind, that Bash handles args before they get into the script
# and some characters like !@`#\ should be escaped, and some '" should match their pairs.
#
# to escape a character, append a backwards slash before it like so:
# \!

Either way command creates a file called DD.md in the $C_NOTES_DIR/YYYY/MM. If the file exists, notes.sh will append to it.

Destination folder, filename and other things can be changed using a configuration file, see Customization below.

🔧 Customization

Set the variables of config.sh to your liking.

For your ease of use, there is already an config.example.sh — just rename it to config.sh and you're good to go!

Variables

• C_NOTES_DIR (/path/to/notes/directory) — Top-level directory for all the notes

• C_NOTES_EDITOR (nvim, nano, sublime, whatever) — Use an editor to change today's note file manually

• C_NOTES_DELIMITER (\n---\n, for example) Delimiter between the separated notes inside today's note file

• C_NOTES_Y_SUBDIR (true/false) — Create a %Year% subfolder for the notes?

• C_NOTES_M_SUBDIR (true/false) — Create a %Month% subfolder for the notes?

• C_NOTES_FORMAT (txt, md, whatever) — File extension (what goes after the . (dot) in the filenames)

• C_NOTES_TEMPLATE (/path/to/file) — A template for the new notes

🍀 Acknowledgements

Based on: https://github.com/nickjj/notes

📝 LICENSE

GNU General Public License v3.0 only.