Jot

Productivity

note taking

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Jot

Rapid note management for the terminal, inspired by Obsidian

github.com

#terminal notes#obsidian#markdown notes#note management

146points
42comments
#414of 2,570 in 2022
Top 17%of 2022 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

3 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.

Idea: 3 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful idea for terminal-based note taking alongside Obsidian

    From 2 comments
    • Cool, I'll keep an eye on it then. Linking and jumping between notes IS what I'm using to manage my notes, so it doesn't fit my workflow quite yet, but I'd love to ditch obsidian…
      Version467 on HN
    • That was my thought / use case too. I'd love the ability to quickly add notes to my existing obsidian if I'm in the terminal. For longer notes, with images, links etc I'd rather…
      pfd1986 on HN

Objections

  • Unclear what the tool does beyond aliasing cd, mkdir and ls

    From 2 comments
    • Maybe I'm dumb, but I don't see what this is doing besides aliasing `cd`, `mkdir`, `ls` and `nvim note.md`?
      bongobingo1 on HN
    • I appreciate this effort, and I want to try it out... but in the README, I did not see how to literally make a note from the terminal. Is this intended to make something like…
      octokatt on HN
  • No Obsidian vault compatibility yet

    From 2 comments
    • > It uses the same format of storage as Obsidian... Can Obsidian and Jot co-mingle in the same vault? I use Obsidian and am very happy with the git plugin[0] and Working…
      oktwtf on HN
    • That was my thought / use case too. I'd love the ability to quickly add notes to my existing obsidian if I'm in the terminal. For longer notes, with images, links etc I'd rather…
      pfd1986 on HN

Requests

  • Use an existing folder as a vault or import Obsidian vaults

    From 1 comment
    • Now that I think about it, they can, just not right now. What Jot needs is a 'use existing folder as vault' feature like in Obsidian, or an 'import vaults from Obsidian' feature.…
      araekiel on HN
  • Linking between notes and editor/LSP integration

    From 2 comments
    • I like that this is editor agnostic, but I also think that obsidians killer feature is the effortless linking between notes. That seems to me like it would be much easier to do…
      Version467 on HN
    • I just wrote a super simple nvim plugin in fennel that allows you to go straight to your daily note using your existing obsidian config.…
      hermiod on HN
  • Git-based cross-device sync

    From 2 comments
    • Oh it’s does not? What happen if the vault happen to be a git repo? I assumed that would allow to synchronize. ( nothing automatic, no concurrency management of course )
      dopidopHN on HN
    • I do plan on adding vault encryption and cross device sync (literally making a list of updates atm). Like tacostakohashi mentioned, I too have been thinking of using git for…
      araekiel on HN

Questions

  • Can Obsidian and Jot share the same vault?

    From 1 comment
    • > It uses the same format of storage as Obsidian... Can Obsidian and Jot co-mingle in the same vault? I use Obsidian and am very happy with the git plugin[0] and Working…
      oktwtf on HN
  • Is this about the default FreeBSD command?

    From 1 comment
    • Is this is about the default freebsd command?
      nmz on HN

Alternatives named

  • Obsidian

    From 2 comments
    • Fwiw (maybe not much :-)), for me the the killer feature of obsidian is the combination of markdown + inline image rendering + local storage. My notes are typically screenshots +…
      rbetts on HN
    • Personally, I'd like to take notes with vim (or helix), however somehow it's still an unsolved problem to sync files with end-to-end encryption between devices, without also…
      emerongi on HN
  • Syncthing for syncing notes

    From 2 comments
    • Personally, I use Syncthing to sync all my notes between computers and my phone, it works great!
      Mylloon on HN
    • Have you looked at syncthing? I believe it ticks off all your boxes. I'm using it to sync my obsidian vault and Todo list between multiple android, Windows, and Linux devices and…
      tcrenshaw on HN
  • Logseq, Dendron

    From 1 comment
    • Cool, I'll keep an eye on it then. Linking and jumping between notes IS what I'm using to manage my notes, so it doesn't fit my workflow quite yet, but I'd love to ditch obsidian…
      Version467 on HN
  • Shell scripts with git for notes

    From 2 comments
    • I've got a few zsh functions that let me type "note" which creates a file named todays date (if it doesn't exist), inserts a timestamp, and opens it in vim. When I exit vim, the…
      aedocw on HN
    • My notes system is established but this tool looks interesting. I essentially create a Github repository and journal computer and software ideas in the open in a README.md with a…
      samsquire on HN

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