5 ms·

A simple, fully featured command line note taking tool written in Rust

82 points by 0xmohit 10y ago

sa2ajj 10y ago
It does not seem to build with the stable Rust. $ git clone ... $ cd theca $ cargo build ... errors ... edit: formatting
0xmohit 10y ago
The following link introduces the tool: https://www.bracewel.net/introducing-theca/
- wlesieutre 10y ago
  As a link: https://www.bracewel.net/introducing-theca/ https://www.bracewel.net/introducing-theca/
aeosynth 10y ago
> Latest commit 95f255a on Mar 26, 2015
- Razengan 10y ago
  Is that any cause of much concern for open-source projects? Anyone can resume development at any time, no? I'd be more worried about closed software that had its latest release that long ago.
  - adrianN 10y ago
    Unless you're prepared to do that work yourself, you should be wary before starting to use abandoned projects.
- 0xmohit 10y ago
  You cannot ignore: > 299 commits https://github.com/rolandshoemaker/theca/commits/master https://github.com/rolandshoemaker/theca/commits/master and I don't see open issues either (the one that is open is unrelated to the functionality).
  - daveguy 10y ago
    That's a good point -- a sign that it is working well for everyone using it. Remember. Open source software generally doesn't have to release artificial upgrades to boost sales.
- nachtigall 10y ago
  Which is more than a year (=ages for a young language like Rust) plus currently "Build failing" badge.
  - steveklabnik 10y ago
    More importantly, it's before Rust 1.0; it was during the time of beta.
makepanic 10y ago
there's also https://taskwarrior.org/ https://taskwarrior.org/ (not written in rust) with a similar feature set
- nazgob 10y ago
  And quite big community.
- tveita 10y ago
  And http://todotxt.com/ http://todotxt.com/ if you want to sync between the CLI and your phone.
- 0xmohit 10y ago
  Also devtodo [0] (written in Go) and todo [1] written in Python. [0] https://github.com/alecthomas/devtodo2 https://github.com/alecthomas/devtodo2 [1] https://github.com/foobuzz/todo https://github.com/foobuzz/todo
- pwelch 10y ago
  And Jrnl which is one I use on a daily basis. http://jrnl.sh http://jrnl.sh
grewil2 10y ago
It's hard to beat org-mode. http://orgmode.org/ http://orgmode.org/
- 0xmohit 10y ago
  So true. Org Mode - Organize Your Life In Plain Text! [0] http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html
  - wry_discontent 10y ago
    My life? No. My projects? Absolutely.
agentgt 10y ago
This sort of very loosely reminds me of boom [1] which I used briefly before writing my own piece of bash shell script garbage. For some reason a majority of my note taking revolves around links. There are also times like looking for clothes are other private research that I do not what hundreds of bookmarks stored in my browser. To be honest I still haven't found the right tool for managing bookmarks and have just resorted to text files in emacs/vim and pbcopy/pbpaste. [1]: https://zachholman.com/boom/ https://zachholman.com/boom/
- delluminatus 10y ago
  Have you considered using https://pinboard.in https://pinboard.in? It's a great tool for bookmark organization using tagging. I have over 3500 private bookmarks on that site, but I rarely lose links or have issues isolating sets of links relating to particular projects. It costs something like $15 for an account, but there are no ads and your data isn't sold or shared if you don't want it to be.
jrcii 10y ago
I use Terminal Velocity http://www.seanh.cc/terminal_velocity/ http://www.seanh.cc/terminal_velocity/ it uses the same data as the awesome GUI version Notational Velocity http://notational.net/ http://notational.net/
- curioussavage 10y ago
  sweet! thank you I have been looking for a nice simple terminal note taker. I think this is the one for me
dogas 10y ago
I just released version 0.2 of todolist [1] which looks and feels very similar to theca in a lot of ways. The main difference is that todolist is focused around GTD and productivity, and is akin to Todoist or Wunderlist, but for the command line. [1]: http://todolist.site http://todolist.site
- albertoleal 10y ago
  Really nice! Like you, I wanted a cli program that largely replace the gui app that I used for GTD (in this case, I was using Omnifocus). I'm a huge fan of ledger-cli [1] (double-entry accounting cli program); and I wanted to create a GTD cli program that is akin to ledger-cli. As part of learning Rust, I created gtdtxt [2] (named like todotxt), which imho, fits very closely to my ideal usecases of the command-line GTD workflow (e.g. has more features than todotxt). Hopefully it's useful for others. If anyone is not familiar with ledger-cli, it's just a really fast file(s) parser; and like gtdtxt, not modifying text files is part of the feature [3]. I just created gtdtxt recently, and I'm still dogfeeding it to iron out/add more features. I'm still in the process of writing documentation/tutorial. [1]: http://www.ledger-cli.org http://www.ledger-cli.org [2]: https://github.com/gtdtxt/gtdtxt https://github.com/gtdtxt/gtdtxt [3]: http://www.ledger-cli.org/features.html http://www.ledger-cli.org/features.html
- dom96 10y ago
  Looks really nice. I've been meaning to move to todo.txt[1] for a while now, would you say that todolist is better? 1 - http://todotxt.com/ http://todotxt.com/
  - dogas 10y ago
    The big difference is philosophical. I don't mind having a tool to manage my todos, whereas todo.txt is centered around your Todo.txt file. I've been considering building an integration to Todo.txt as I don't think our projects are mutually exclusive. I'm also building out a reusable web component and I plan on making an IOS + Android app as well.
kbenson 10y ago
As a helpful hint to Roland, based on his example image. Do not buy a boat. Been there, done that. Unless you can afford to pay someone else to keep it up, and/or pay dock fees to make it easy to use when you want (or have plenty of experience already with taking care of boats), do not buy a boat. You know that joke about the two favorite days in a boat owner's life, the day they buy a boat and the day they sell the boat? So true.
mVChr 10y ago
Neat to see the Rust source for something straight-forward like this as I've been teaching myself the language recently. Also, seeing as I just made a PR to the simplenote.vim plugin, I feel the need to make a shoutout to it: https://github.com/mrtazz/simplenote.vim https://github.com/mrtazz/simplenote.vim The extra benefit here is that you additionally get external syncing to simplenote, so you can then edit or use the notes on a phone app, another computer, etc.
smartmic 10y ago
Yet another note taking tool I use: http://www.daemon.de/NOTE http://www.daemon.de/NOTE It features encryption and is more useful than I thought before trying out.
nuex 10y ago
I made a similar tool using sh (tags, namespaces, etc): https://github.com/nuex/note https://github.com/nuex/note.

82 points by 0xmohit 10y ago

It does not seem to build with the stable Rust. $ git clone ... $ cd theca $ cargo build ... errors ... edit: formatting

0xmohit 10y ago

The following link introduces the tool: https://www.bracewel.net/introducing-theca/

wlesieutre 10y ago
As a link: https://www.bracewel.net/introducing-theca/ https://www.bracewel.net/introducing-theca/

aeosynth 10y ago

> Latest commit 95f255a on Mar 26, 2015

Razengan 10y ago
Is that any cause of much concern for open-source projects? Anyone can resume development at any time, no? I'd be more worried about closed software that had its latest release that long ago.
- adrianN 10y ago
  Unless you're prepared to do that work yourself, you should be wary before starting to use abandoned projects.
0xmohit 10y ago
You cannot ignore: > 299 commits https://github.com/rolandshoemaker/theca/commits/master https://github.com/rolandshoemaker/theca/commits/master and I don't see open issues either (the one that is open is unrelated to the functionality).
- daveguy 10y ago
  That's a good point -- a sign that it is working well for everyone using it. Remember. Open source software generally doesn't have to release artificial upgrades to boost sales.
nachtigall 10y ago
Which is more than a year (=ages for a young language like Rust) plus currently "Build failing" badge.
- steveklabnik 10y ago
  More importantly, it's before Rust 1.0; it was during the time of beta.

makepanic 10y ago

there's also https://taskwarrior.org/ https://taskwarrior.org/ (not written in rust) with a similar feature set

nazgob 10y ago
And quite big community.
tveita 10y ago
And http://todotxt.com/ http://todotxt.com/ if you want to sync between the CLI and your phone.
0xmohit 10y ago
Also devtodo [0] (written in Go) and todo [1] written in Python. [0] https://github.com/alecthomas/devtodo2 https://github.com/alecthomas/devtodo2 [1] https://github.com/foobuzz/todo https://github.com/foobuzz/todo
pwelch 10y ago
And Jrnl which is one I use on a daily basis. http://jrnl.sh http://jrnl.sh

grewil2 10y ago

It's hard to beat org-mode. http://orgmode.org/ http://orgmode.org/

0xmohit 10y ago
So true. Org Mode - Organize Your Life In Plain Text! [0] http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html
- wry_discontent 10y ago
  My life? No. My projects? Absolutely.

agentgt 10y ago

This sort of very loosely reminds me of boom [1] which I used briefly before writing my own piece of bash shell script garbage. For some reason a majority of my note taking revolves around links. There are also times like looking for clothes are other private research that I do not what hundreds of bookmarks stored in my browser. To be honest I still haven't found the right tool for managing bookmarks and have just resorted to text files in emacs/vim and pbcopy/pbpaste. [1]: https://zachholman.com/boom/ https://zachholman.com/boom/

delluminatus 10y ago
Have you considered using https://pinboard.in https://pinboard.in? It's a great tool for bookmark organization using tagging. I have over 3500 private bookmarks on that site, but I rarely lose links or have issues isolating sets of links relating to particular projects. It costs something like $15 for an account, but there are no ads and your data isn't sold or shared if you don't want it to be.

jrcii 10y ago

I use Terminal Velocity http://www.seanh.cc/terminal_velocity/ http://www.seanh.cc/terminal_velocity/ it uses the same data as the awesome GUI version Notational Velocity http://notational.net/ http://notational.net/

curioussavage 10y ago
sweet! thank you I have been looking for a nice simple terminal note taker. I think this is the one for me

dogas 10y ago

I just released version 0.2 of todolist [1] which looks and feels very similar to theca in a lot of ways. The main difference is that todolist is focused around GTD and productivity, and is akin to Todoist or Wunderlist, but for the command line. [1]: http://todolist.site http://todolist.site

albertoleal 10y ago
Really nice! Like you, I wanted a cli program that largely replace the gui app that I used for GTD (in this case, I was using Omnifocus). I'm a huge fan of ledger-cli [1] (double-entry accounting cli program); and I wanted to create a GTD cli program that is akin to ledger-cli. As part of learning Rust, I created gtdtxt [2] (named like todotxt), which imho, fits very closely to my ideal usecases of the command-line GTD workflow (e.g. has more features than todotxt). Hopefully it's useful for others. If anyone is not familiar with ledger-cli, it's just a really fast file(s) parser; and like gtdtxt, not modifying text files is part of the feature [3]. I just created gtdtxt recently, and I'm still dogfeeding it to iron out/add more features. I'm still in the process of writing documentation/tutorial. [1]: http://www.ledger-cli.org http://www.ledger-cli.org [2]: https://github.com/gtdtxt/gtdtxt https://github.com/gtdtxt/gtdtxt [3]: http://www.ledger-cli.org/features.html http://www.ledger-cli.org/features.html
dom96 10y ago
Looks really nice. I've been meaning to move to todo.txt[1] for a while now, would you say that todolist is better? 1 - http://todotxt.com/ http://todotxt.com/
- dogas 10y ago
  The big difference is philosophical. I don't mind having a tool to manage my todos, whereas todo.txt is centered around your Todo.txt file. I've been considering building an integration to Todo.txt as I don't think our projects are mutually exclusive. I'm also building out a reusable web component and I plan on making an IOS + Android app as well.

kbenson 10y ago

As a helpful hint to Roland, based on his example image. Do not buy a boat. Been there, done that. Unless you can afford to pay someone else to keep it up, and/or pay dock fees to make it easy to use when you want (or have plenty of experience already with taking care of boats), do not buy a boat. You know that joke about the two favorite days in a boat owner's life, the day they buy a boat and the day they sell the boat? So true.

mVChr 10y ago

Neat to see the Rust source for something straight-forward like this as I've been teaching myself the language recently. Also, seeing as I just made a PR to the simplenote.vim plugin, I feel the need to make a shoutout to it: https://github.com/mrtazz/simplenote.vim https://github.com/mrtazz/simplenote.vim The extra benefit here is that you additionally get external syncing to simplenote, so you can then edit or use the notes on a phone app, another computer, etc.

smartmic 10y ago

Yet another note taking tool I use: http://www.daemon.de/NOTE http://www.daemon.de/NOTE It features encryption and is more useful than I thought before trying out.

nuex 10y ago

I made a similar tool using sh (tags, namespaces, etc): https://github.com/nuex/note https://github.com/nuex/note.