snote

Rudimentary CLI to write and organize text.

I've got a ways to go in terms of features and documentation. Pull requests are neat.

Install

Downloading the repo and firing off python setup.py install does the trick.

Configuration

Reads configuration from whichever file to which environment variable SNOTE points.

Each notebook requires a valid path, where notes will be saved. Global settings apply to all notebooks, and may be overwritten at a notebook level.

[global]
editor=vim
ext=md
datefmt=%Y-%m-%d
timefmt=%H:%M:%S
timestamp=[{time}]
template=/path/to/template/file
default_title='no title'

[my-notebook]
path=/path/to/directory

[another]
path=/path/to/another/directory
editor=nano
ext=rst

Usage

usage: snote [-h] [-t] [-f FILENAME]
             notebook {update,u,new,n,list,l,ls,search,s} ...

positional arguments:
  notebook              name of notebook to access

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -t, --timestamp       add a timestamp to the note
  -f FILENAME, --filename FILENAME
                        name a new note, or search for a note to update

actions:
  {update,u,new,n,list,l,ls,search,s}
                        notebook action, defaults to update
    update (u)          edit note; default action
    new (n)             create new note
    list (l, ls)        list note titles in notebook
    search (s)          list note titles containing the search term

Motivaton

I wrote this for myself as a way to catalog my stream of consciousness, and an exercise in packaging.