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Productivity
command-line note taking
SHOW HN2020
240points
49comments
#205of 3,028 in 2020
Top 7%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
11 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score +0.35.
Idea: 5 for, 1 againstExecution: 4 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Polished, feature-complete tool with impressive documentation
From 3 comments
This looks super cool and polished. That it's a 11401 line shell script is blowing my mind.
maxioatic on HNThis looks fantastic! I’ve only spent a few minutes with this, but the design is really, really smart and the featureset is top-notch! Congratulations!
filmgirlcw on HNThat's some impressive documentation - did you write (and update) it all by hand, or is it semi-automatically updated from the CLI help page? Shameless plug for people who are…
darekkay on HN
Git sync is convenient and useful
From 2 comments
Wow, looks great. Using git to sync is super convenient -- there's so much infrastructure available to support git so it's basically no effort to start syncing with github etc. I…
engineerX on HNIt looks incredible, rich in features and the git syncing capability is neat. My only wish would be to be able to import my bookmarks somehow. A few months back wrote my one CLI…
zorbash on HN
Impressive that a large feature set is written in Bash
From 2 comments
This looks super cool and polished. That it's a 11401 line shell script is blowing my mind.
maxioatic on HNIt looks incredible, rich in features and the git syncing capability is neat. My only wish would be to be able to import my bookmarks somehow. A few months back wrote my one CLI…
zorbash on HN
Objections
No Windows support
From 1 comment
That would definitely be helpful. This tool looks cool, but I need windows support.
pbronez on HN
Encrypted notes cannot be searched alongside plain content
From 1 comment
There have been a few of these note taking systems that have passed through HN lately. I use org-mode for some notes and sometimes open-junk-file (that I discovered in in…
holmb on HN
Codebase has a lot of repetition
From 1 comment
I hate to be critical of what's a rather impressive piece of work, but a lot of the reason for that length is just a lot of repetition, e.g.…
dmd on HN
Requests
Import bookmarks from other tools
From 1 comment
It looks incredible, rich in features and the git syncing capability is neat. My only wish would be to be able to import my bookmarks somehow. A few months back wrote my one CLI…
zorbash on HN
Web-based GUI for non-CLI users
From 1 comment
I love all of this! Just need a similar web-based GUI so my coworkers can use the same back-end technology without having to use the CLI.
vinebase-albert on HN
Native capture tool for macOS and iOS
From 1 comment
Why did you decide to go with Bash instead of another scripting language like Python or Ruby? Portability? "Just because"? I am not bashing Bash ;) but genuinously interested in…
pantulis on HN
Import Evernote notes
From 1 comment
I was searching for something like this and thinking of creating it myself, glad I don't have to now. Can it import evernote notes/notebooks?
nathias on HN
Questions
How tagging works for notes compared to bookmarks
From 1 comment
This tool is going into my workflow right away. I take notes in markdown (with latex) for all my classes but they're disorganized and searching through them for a specific topic…
mrpf1ster on HN
How it compares to similar tools such as kb
From 1 comment
How does this compare with https://github.com/gnebbia/kb?
firstSpeaker on HN
Alternatives named
Emacs org-mode with GPG
From 2 comments
There have been a few of these note taking systems that have passed through HN lately. I use org-mode for some notes and sometimes open-junk-file (that I discovered in in…
holmb on HNEmacs can use GPG to encrypt files at rest pretty transparently. Just save a files with the extension `.org.gpg` and it should get encrypted automatically with Spacemacs (I…
phaer on HN
pass password manager for daily notes
From 1 comment
I use pass[1] with this alias for daily notes. The nice thing about that is there are lots of native clients ``` alias journal='pass edit journal/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)' ``` [1]:…
philips on HN
jrnl.sh
From 1 comment
Looks similar to jrnl.sh which I have been using for years. Combine with iTerm2 with it's configurable "drop down" terminal with a global shortcut and I can save anything from…
sixhobbits on HN
Archivy
From 1 comment
You can check out https://github.com/Uzay-G/archivy/. It's quite similar except uses a web interface. We're building it out and are working on adding a login system so people can…
etherio on HN
Logseq and Cerveau
From 1 comment
See also Logseq [1] (a roam alternative) and Cerveau/Neuron [2] (a zettelkasten implemented in Haskell) for alternative git-based note management. See also [3] for a Lobsters…
benrbray on HN