notes

Notes manager.

Concept: I want to keep my notes in plain text files, to search them like man and to share them with my laptop and phone. I also want to use outputs of programs, and to create, or append to, CLI files using echo. I would like to use the groff format but I never did. I want to reorganize them with a file manager like mc.

• Notes can support any file type, but it is designed for plain-text (txt,md,troff,...).
• CLI interface. It is designed to behave as man.
• NCurses interface (run it without arguments).
• Nextcloud Notes compatible. I use nextcloud to synchronize my notes and use them in Android. So notes is designed to work well with Nextcloud.
• It can be synchronized with almost any known utility (rsync, git, rclone, etc) (see notesrc(5), onstart/onexit)
• Viewer & Editor can be specified per file type.
• User-defined popup menu (see man notesrc).

The notes-files are stored in a user-defined directory with optional subdirectories. The subdirectories in the application are named sections. Normally this directory is ~/.notes or ~/Nextcloud/Notes if there is nextcloud. It can be specified in the configuration file (see man notesrc). The viewer (pager) and the editor can be configured by file type in the configuration file. There is a list to exclude files or directories from the notes-list (for example .git directrory). In this application, pattern means a shell pattern (with KSH additions), not a regular expression (see man fnmatch).

You will need my md2roff utility to create the man pages; this in not necessary if you use the *.man files that are stored in this repo.

Installation

First install md2roff from https://github.com/nereusx/md2roff if you have not already.

git clone https://github.com/nereusx/notes
cd notes
make install

Examples

Insert a note about Oxygen Not Included game when I found it.

echo 'vi "`locate SpeedControlConfig.json`"' | notes -a Games/ONI -

Screenshots

The fonts