This. I've also toyed with the idea of implementing my own flat-file notes manager, but I always get stuck at the question "how is this better than just bash?"

This. I've also toyed with the idea of implementing my own flat-file notes manager, but I always get stuck at the question "how is this better than just bash?" According to the Bitbucket source, here are the commands that it supports: https://bitbucket.org/hawth/hawth/src/7e189c62bae6f459bc648bc9867a00ab0587f3b4/hawth/cmds/?at=default https://bitbucket.org/hawth/hawth/src/7e189c62bae6f459bc648b... Maybe someday it will implement note taking features such as tagging, links, and so on -- but for now, a combination of bash commands seems to be a little more robust. Good idea though.