[svlug] looking for text based note taking tool

Muli Ben-Yehuda mulix at actcom.co.il
Tue Jun 11 13:29:35 PDT 2002


On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 01:23:11PM -0700, hvrietsc at myrealbox.com wrote:
> Before i roll this one myself, can aynone suggest a tool/package
> that will do the following:
> 
> i type note
> and it will fire up $EDITOR and let me type away
> then i save the file
> 
> i can list all notes created between day1 and day2 or last two days
> or today, or yesterday, etc.
> 
> i can list all notes which certain combination keywords in it
> (and not, or type of queries)
> 
> from the list generated i can pick a note and then jump to my
> $EDITOR to edit it.
> 
> i know it is out there but what is it called????

Your favorite shell?

alias note='$EDITOR'

Save all of the notes into a special directory (this can be
automated). Make queries using standard tools such as grep(1) and
find(1). Edit them using your favorite editor. Etc. 
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