note
Ultra minimal shell script for CLI notes
Usage
Notes are created in NOTE_DIR/YYYY-MM.txt files, where YYYY-MM is the current
year and month.
# Set the note directory using the NOTE_DIR environment variable in the
# shell configuration file, such as `.bashrc`, `.profile`, etc.
NOTE_DIR=/data/note
# write a note in NOTE_DIR
n A little note to myself
n "Don't forget to quote or escape as needed"
# write command output to note file
ls logs/ | n
# open the note file
n
# multiline note
cat <<EOF | n
some text on line one
and line two
line 3, etc.
EOF
# or use a quoted string with literal line breaks
n 'hello, i am a multi-
line string'