Magistra Vitae

The aim🎯 of this repo is to facilitate the creation of the historical consciousness of software:

Magistra Vitae is a Latin expression, used by Cicero in his De Oratore as a personification of history, means "life's teacher". Often paraphrased as Historia est Magistra Vitae, it conveys the idea that the study of the past should serve as a lesson to the future, and was an important pillar of classical, medieval and Renaissance historiography.

— From Magistra vitae - Wikipedia

This project is inspired by Informal History Of Programming Ideas.

1. demo

2. setup

2.1. prereqs

• PowerShell Core

2.2. environmental variables

• you need the following envirnomental variables

Name	Example Value
MV_FOLDER	C:\Users\Admin\Documents\workspace\projects\mv

3. instructions

1. Import module into Powershell Profile — $profile and set alias - I am using hmv as mv is taken for Move-Item

# $profile
Import-Module "${env:MV_FOLDER}\mv.ps1"
Set-Alias hmv create-event

2. Call it and enter year and event title:
   • the markdown file will be created
   • situated in respective's decade folder
   • with zettelkasten-optimized template
3. Use with other scripts from Zettelkasten For VSCode

4. sources

• Magistra vitae - Wikipedia
• Zettelkasten For VSCode
• Informal History Of Programming Ideas