JotNote

A Unix Command-Line Tool to jot notes.

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Uninstall
• Commands
  • Add
  • Show
  • Edit
  • Delete
  • Configure

Installation

From release

Download latest release, head to downloads directory and install using pip.

pip install JotNote-1.0.1.tar.gz

From repository

# Update setuptools
$ pip install --upgrade setuptools
# Clone repository
$ git clone https://github.com/JonathanGzzBen/JotNote.git
# Install package
$ (cd JotNote && pip install .)
# Write your notes
$ jotnote
[jotnote show]
No notes found.

Uninstall

# Uninstall package
$ pip uninstall jotnote
# Remove data and configurations
$ rm ~/.jotnote -r

Commands

Add

This will create a note with given title. You don’t need to enclose it with quotes.

$ jotnote add This is the title

{
  "id": 1,
  "title": "This is the title"
}

You can immediately define title and content, separating it with a .

$ jotnote add This is the title. And this is the content

{
  "id": 1,
  "title": "This is the title.",
  "content": "And this is the content"
}

You can also execute it without any parameter to write your note in your default text editor.

$ jotnote add

If you save and quit in your text editor after writing this:

This is the title.
And this the content

You will get this:

{
  "id": 1,
  "title": "This is the title.",
  "content": "And this is the content"
}

Show

Displays your notes, you can change the maximum number of notes displayed and the sort method using the configure command.

$ jotnote show
+---+------------------------------------+
|   |               Title                |
+---+------------------------------------+
| 2 |            Second note             |
| 1 | This is the title of my first note |
+---+------------------------------------+

This is the default command, you can also use:

$ jotnote
[jotnote show]
+---+------------------------------------+
|   |               Title                |
+---+------------------------------------+
| 2 |            Second note             |
| 1 | This is the title of my first note |
+---+------------------------------------+

You can directly print the contents of a note by passing the Id to the show command.

$ jotnote show 1
This is the title of my first note.
And this is the content.

Edit

Opens note with corresponding ID in your default text editor.

$ jotnote edit 1

Delete

Delete note with corresponding ID.

$ jotnote delete 1
Note 1 deleted

Configure

Check or modify your configurations.

$ jotnote configure --help
Usage: jotnote configure [OPTIONS]
Options:
  -l, --limit INTEGER             Limit number of notes displayed.
  -o, --orderby [modification|creation]
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

If you pass no options, your current configurations will be printed.

$ jotnote configure
Configuration    Value
---------------  --------
limit            5
orderby          creation