This is what I do too. I have 20 years of notes saved like this. I also open sourced a zero dependency Bash script that handles this at: https://github.com/nic

This is what I do too. I have 20 years of notes saved like this. I also open sourced a zero dependency Bash script that handles this at: https://github.com/nickjj/notes https://github.com/nickjj/notes It supports adding notes in 3 different ways: notes hello world appends the text to the YYYY-MM.txt dated file echo cool | notes same as above except you can pipe in text notes opens the YYYY-MM.txt file in your configured $EDITOR I use all 3 methods of input on a regular basis depending on what I want to jot down.