Recollect

A simple tool for creating, managing, and viewing snippets, notes, or pretty much any other text-based content at the command line. The original purpose was to store infrequently used complex command strings in a location where they could easily be indexed and retrieved. Text files are stored under ~/.recollections and can be accessed using other tools or methods (e.g. Git, Dropbox, etc).

Note .txt extensions are used for all files automatically, they are just hidden from the interaction.

Note If you find yourself outlining complex procedures, you should consider if a shared team knowledge base might be a better fit.

Installation

gem install recollect

Search Functions

Recollect includes both a search directive and a recollection matching capability.

The search capability looks inside of files for a specific search string using a line match (=~ /string/).

The recollection match will try to find similar recollection names when showing a recollection or when using edit, remove, or append. This is a first part match, so you need to use the first part of the path or recollection name to get a match. When only one match is found the user is prompted to confirm this is the recollection intended; on confirmation the requested action will be executed. When multiple matches are found they will be displayed as suggestions.

Usage

USAGE: recollect ACTION [arg]
Recollect manages a series of things worth remembering "recollections" as a series of
text files.

  Actions: list, new, edit, or <name> where <name> is the recollection to be displayed.
    list [category] - provides a listing of all available recollections.
                      use [category] to specify a subdirectory
    name            - displays the recollection matching 'name'
    new <name>      - creates a new recollection
    edit <name>     - modifies an existing recollection
    remove <name>   - removes a recollection
    search <searchstr>  - searches all recollections for "searchstr"
    append <name> <str> - appends <str> to the existing recollection <name>

Note: ["new", "edit", "remove", "help", "search", "append"] are reserved and cannot be the name
of a recollection.

Version: 0.2.0

Examples

If you haven't already, you should set your EDITOR. On OSX you can set it to Textmate with a command like:

echo 'export EDITOR="mate -w" >> ~/.bash_profile

Create a new recollection named git

recollect new git   # edit, save, and close the editor

List the available recollections

recollect list

List the available recollections under mysql/

recollect list mysql

Edit the git recollection

recollect edit git  # edit, save, and close the editor

Display the git recollection

recollect git

Search for recollections containing 'postgres'

recollect search 'postgres'

Find with a partial recollection name

recollect ra

> **** Unable to find a recollection matching 'ra'
> You might have meant:
>   raid
>   rails
>   unicorn/rack