A simple note-taking utility, inspired by this beautiful article by Peter
Lyons.
It will write all of your musings to a file called ~/.daily_log. Currently
no project-specific note-taking is possible or planned.
notes unpythonically chooses to be installed via make. The relevant command
is make install. It will set you up. notes is written in Python, and a
Python interpreter is required on your $PATH. Python 2 and 3 should both
work.
notes has four major modes: edit, show, search/isearch, and dump.
The edit mode will be entered by typing notes edit, which will open your
favorite editor as determined by the $EDITOR path variable—defaulting to
vi, noone’s favorite editor. In it, you can write notes to your hearts
content. After you’re done, save the file and exit. The contents of that file
will be appended to the log, with an added date.
dump mode—the other writing mode—will be entered by typing notes <anything not starting with another command name>. It will take any arguments
supplied and dump them into your log file verbatim. This means you can use it
like so:
$ notes i restarted the server and found out it has trouble rebooting on its ownThe prefixed date helps you localize it.
The show mode will just dump the file as-is. Protip: use less or a similar
utility to make sense of this mess.
For a full-text search of your logs using regexes, use search mode. It is
capable of multiline regexes as well. If you want case-insensitive matches,
use isearch.
Have fun!