rnote

A minimal note taking cli tool.

Description

rnote creates Markdown text files (with permissions set to 600) in a date-named or category-named directories (with permissions set to 700) with a name of a header of the note.

Example:

.rnote/
├── 2020-03-20
│   └── Lockdown.md
├── 2020-10-20
│   └── New Lockdown.md
└── shop
    └── to buy.md

Basic usage

rnote gives certain subcommands for managing your notes.

USAGE:
    rnote [SUBCOMMAND]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    edit      Edit a note.
    help      Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    list      List all notes or notes from a category.
    new       Create new note
    panic     Delete all notes.
    remove    Remove a note.
    search    Search a note.
    show      Show note(s) in TextView.

You can get help page to each subcommand individually by typing rnote <subcommand> -h to see all possible options.

Usage

This section explains the thorough use of each procedure.

• Create a note
• Edit a note
• List notes
• Remove notes
• Search notes
• Show notes

Create a note

rnote new can be simplified by rnote n.
In order to create a note, type:

$ rnote new

It will prompt you to enter a note name and a note will be saved in date-named category.
Or

$ rnote new <name>

Same as previous but without prompt.
Or

$ rnote new <name> <category>

It will create a note <name> in <category>.

Edit a note

rnote edit can be simplified by rnote e.
In order to edit a note, type:

$ rnote edit

It will prompt you to enter a note name.
Or

$ rnote edit <name>

It will search all notes named <name> and will prompt you to choose one if multiple notes found.

List notes

rnote list can be simplified by rnote ls or rnote l.
You can list all notes by typing:

$ rnote list

It will show you all notes and prompt to optionnaly choose one to open.
You can also list all notes from a <category> by typing:

$ rnote list -c

or

$ rnote list --category

It will prompt you to enter category name.

Remove notes

rnote remove can be simplified by rnote r or rnote rm.
To delete a note, you can simply type:

$ rnote remove

It will prompt you to enter a name of a note. Or

$ rnote remove <name>

Both commands will prompt if you do want to delete a note.

You can also remove all notes created at a certain date with:

$ rnote remove -d

Or

$ rnote remove --date

Which will prompt to enter a date in the format YYYY-mm-dd.

Search notes

rnote search can be simplified by rnote s.
To search a note simply type:

$ rnote search

Or

$ rnote search <name>

First one will prompt you to enter the name.

You can also search by word/string containing in some note:

$ rnote search -w

or

$ rnote search --word

It will prompt to enter a string to search in all notes and will prompt you to choose one if multiple notes found.

Show notes

To show a note, type:

$ rnote show

Or

$ rnote show <name>

It will show a note in a scrollable TextView in a raw terminal.
To scroll use arrow keys or mouse. To quit click on any button.

To show all notes, use flag --all:

$ rnote show --all

Or

$ rnote show -a

To show all notes from a <category>, use flag --category:

$ rnote show -c

Or

$ rnote show --category

It will prompt you to enter category name.

TODO

• Create a note
• Delete a note
• Modify a note
• Show all notes in a scrollable TextView in a raw terminal with termimad
• Show all notes from DATE or Category
• Search a note by header
• Search a note by word (kinda grep)
• List all notes
• List all notes from a Category
• Delete all notes (panic)
• Delete all notes created at a certain date