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Show HN: n.py − simple note taking CLI tool

19 points by sodimel 5y ago

ledauphin 5y ago
I like this idea. I kind of think I want to write my own that integrates with org-roam. I like the concept of networked notes, but find I don't take enough of them because of the effort involved in doing so. Making it easier to capture the information would be great. I'd probably also want to integrate with Anki for the notes that I want to eventually commit to memory.
- sodimel 5y ago
  Thanks for making me discover org-roam. > I don't take enough of them because of the effort involved in doing so And then the effort of launching a GUI or a big program (so 1-5 seconds) just to retrieve a command or a line of text. With a (lightweight) terminal-based solution, you just grep the file or use whatever is available to find the information faster.
sodimel 5y ago
Hi :) I just pushed this (very) small project. It's a note taking cli python program, which will works (at least) on python 2.4, 2.7 and 3.9. It's heavily inspired by inc[0], that I discovered in this post[1] (that was posted to hn a few months ago[2], thanks hn :)). The goal here is to store knowledge using simple txt files. If you provide a name to the cli, the txt will be saved under "name.txt", and if you keep it blank, it will save a file named after today's date (%Y-%m-%d.txt). You can search for content, and it will be sorted by last accessed first. The "date in the name" thing is cool (from my pov) because I may remember a concept or something by it's date. I also spent way too much time writing the help. [0]: https://github.com/thesephist/inc https://github.com/thesephist/inc [1]: https://thesephist.com/posts/inc/ https://thesephist.com/posts/inc/ [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27667538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27667538
sodimel 5y ago
I just updated n.py! Here's the content of the git commit msg: add cat & ls features add default extension env var add ability to define ext of a new file update help txt add examples to help txt remove ugly exit_code var in bash commands add autocomplete script Now I can see all the files with `n ls` or some files with `n ls text`. I can even edit a file very quickly by doing `n [tab][tab]` and selecting the file I want to edit!

19 points by sodimel 5y ago

I like this idea. I kind of think I want to write my own that integrates with org-roam. I like the concept of networked notes, but find I don't take enough of them because of the effort involved in doing so. Making it easier to capture the information would be great. I'd probably also want to integrate with Anki for the notes that I want to eventually commit to memory.

sodimel 5y ago
Thanks for making me discover org-roam. > I don't take enough of them because of the effort involved in doing so And then the effort of launching a GUI or a big program (so 1-5 seconds) just to retrieve a command or a line of text. With a (lightweight) terminal-based solution, you just grep the file or use whatever is available to find the information faster.

sodimel 5y ago

Hi :) I just pushed this (very) small project. It's a note taking cli python program, which will works (at least) on python 2.4, 2.7 and 3.9. It's heavily inspired by inc[0], that I discovered in this post[1] (that was posted to hn a few months ago[2], thanks hn :)). The goal here is to store knowledge using simple txt files. If you provide a name to the cli, the txt will be saved under "name.txt", and if you keep it blank, it will save a file named after today's date (%Y-%m-%d.txt). You can search for content, and it will be sorted by last accessed first. The "date in the name" thing is cool (from my pov) because I may remember a concept or something by it's date. I also spent way too much time writing the help. [0]: https://github.com/thesephist/inc https://github.com/thesephist/inc [1]: https://thesephist.com/posts/inc/ https://thesephist.com/posts/inc/ [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27667538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27667538

sodimel 5y ago

I just updated n.py! Here's the content of the git commit msg: add cat & ls features add default extension env var add ability to define ext of a new file update help txt add examples to help txt remove ugly exit_code var in bash commands add autocomplete script Now I can see all the files with `n ls` or some files with `n ls text`. I can even edit a file very quickly by doing `n [tab][tab]` and selecting the file I want to edit!