I use a shell function I found somewhere. It might have been linked here, I can't remember. This is probably only useful for people that spend a lot of time

I use a shell function I found somewhere. It might have been linked here, I can't remember. This is probably only useful for people that spend a lot of time in a shell. One could adjust the text formatting and date format to their preference. # cat /etc/profile.d/notes.sh function notes() { if [ ! -z "$1" ]; then mkdir --mode=00750 -p ~/.notes Now=$(date '+%Y%m%d.%H%M.%S') echo -en "\n$Now\t$@\n\n" >> ~/.notes/notes.txt else echo "${Now}" cat ~/.notes/notes.txt 2>/dev/null fi } For syncing I suppose this could be pushed to a cifs/nfs/sshfs share, or into a git repo or emailed. Usage: notes some text -or- notes "some text that needs to be quoted in a shell;/;-)" then "notes" by itself to read all the notes. I suppose a function to null out the notes.txt file would be handy and maybe a function to commit the notes to a repo.