syn-ts 🧠

My custom script for creating new zettels in emanote

It is mainly a shortcut for creating "lab", "journal", and "tag list" entries. If you don't ask for one of these special types of zettels, the script's behavior is roughly the same as neuron gen.

alias syn="/path/to/repo/syn.ts"

syn hello-something-new
syn this-already-existed

You can ask for a few different "types", which will change the formatting of the generated zettel:

syn.ts -t lab broken-beaker-wash-me-off
syn.ts --type journal today-my-headache-is-very-caffeinated
syn.ts --type tag linux

See Zettel output types, below.

Setting homedir

You can set the home directory of your zettelkasten, so that you can invoke the script safely from any other directory. The resulting zettel will be created in your zettelkasten dir.

export ZETTELKASTEN=~/zettels

Backdating and such

You can choose to use a different date for the generated zettelkasten.

syn.ts -d yesterday -t l something-happened
syn.ts --date tomorrow -t j i-hope-its-nice
syn.ts -d 2012-02-21 --type journal the-world-did-not-end
syn.ts --date 2030

Zettel type outputs

"default"

This is the same as neuron gen, though you can mess with the date by using -d or --date.

---
date: 2021-03-18T15:09
---

"labs"

This type generates a backlink to a dated lab notes entry (and creates it if necessary). It generates an uplink to a top-level lab-notes zettel.

---
date: 2021-03-18T15:09
---

#[[lab-notes]] [[labs-2021-03-18]]

"journal"

This type generates a backlink to a dated journal entry (and creates it if necessary). It generates an uplink to a top-level journal zettel.

---
date: 2021-04-26T00:00
---

#[[journal]] [[journal-2021-04-26]]

"tag"

Generates a tag-listing zettel.

syn.ts --type tag music will result in:

---
date: 2021-03-10T10:58
---

[[z:zettels?tag=music&timeline]]

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