gustavofsantos / go-notes

Go notes

This is a simple Go project to help me get notified when I need to attend a meeting.

I use a pretty simple workflow to take notes. I have a directory in my home directory called notes, which is synced between my computers via a private repository hosted on GitHub.

Inside this notes directory, I keep a subdirectory called journal where I keep my journals for each day. Those journal files include thoughts, tasks, meetings and notes in general. I use marksman LSP to link my notes and quick jump between them.

But also, I'd like to get notified when I need to attend a meeting, so I created this project alongside with a systemd service and timer that triggers this program every minute to check if I need to attend a meeting.

My journals have this structure:

## Meetings
- [ ] 10:00 Daily
- [ ] 14:30 1:1 with some person

## Tasks
- [ ] I need to get this done

## Notes
blah blah

I also spend almost all my time during coding inside a TMUX server, running inside Alacritty occupying the whole screen and hiding interruptions, this is why I also need to get notified at TMUX.

Setup

Clone this directory anywhere and then run go build -o notes && mv notes ~/.local/bin/notes.

My dotfiles are my home directory. To enable the systemd service and timer, I must run:

$ systemctl --user enable schedule-notes.service
$ systemctl --user enable schedule-notes.timer

Then run the following command to start the timer service:

$ systemctl --user start schedule-notes.timer

The service must be running now

$ systemctl --user status schedule-notes.timer

● schedule-notes.timer - Schedule a message every 1 minute
     Loaded: loaded (/home/gustavo/.config/systemd/user/schedule-notes.timer; enabled; vendor preset: enabl>
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2023-01-07 12:14:21 -03; 2min 26s ago
    Trigger: n/a
   Triggers: ● schedule-notes.service

Jan 07 12:14:21 tinhoso-pop systemd[2701]: Started Schedule a message every 1 minute.