[HN Gopher] Show HN: CLI plain-text notes & bookmarks with Git, ...
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Show HN: CLI plain-text notes & bookmarks with Git, sync,
encryption, and more
Author : xwmx
Score : 145 points
Date : 2020-10-07 15:46 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| zorbash wrote:
| 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 bookmark manager in Elixir
| (https://github.com/tefter/cli). It's impressive how much nb
| achieves yet being written in Bash.
| z29LiTp5qUC30n wrote:
| https://github.com/oriansj/orgmode-bookmarks
|
| enjoy
| xwmx wrote:
| Thanks! That looks really interesting and very nicely designed
| (both your CLI and the web app).
|
| It should be pretty easy to create a bookmark import plugin for
| `nb`, so that's likely to happen.
| holmb wrote:
| 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 Spacemacs).
| What I miss is a tool that will help me keep some notes encrypted
| at rest but will allow me to search filenames _and_ content. nb
| seems to support searching, and encryption, but not the two in
| combination.
| phaer wrote:
| Emacs 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
| personally use https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/).
|
| Note that adding an encrypted file to your agenda, .e.g. `(setq
| org-agenda-files '("~/org/secret-diary.org.gpg"))` will let
| Emacs decrypt that file upon calling "org-agenda". Something
| similar should be possible for search if it doesn't work out of
| the box
| holmb wrote:
| I use this to encrypt files as well and I think Emacs handles
| this very well for individual files. It is however the notes
| management tool that doesn't support transparently search
| through multiple files.
|
| I imagine what is needed is using gpg-agent to handle
| passwordless decryption of the files at rest.
| w0m wrote:
| Wow. Is This is the child of Gina Trapani's old notes.sh? I feel
| like I've watched this grow incredibly over the last 15 years...
| dengsauve wrote:
| This looks fantastic, just from a quick download and playing
| around for 5 minutes I know this is going to come in handy. I
| don't always have a note taker open, but I almost always have a
| terminal open.
| auto wrote:
| This looks awesome, and touches on a bunch of things that have
| been on my to-do list of "find a thing that can do X", even if
| that thing didn't let me stay in the command line, which this
| obviously does.
|
| Curious to see what people come here to say does all of this
| better, because if it exists in a nice package like this, I
| haven't seen it yet.
| engineerX wrote:
| 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 use dstask to manage my todo list which also uses git, it's
| excellent.
| jhoechtl wrote:
| Thank you for dstask. I also have to take a deeper look into
| this submission.
|
| Are you aware of a currated list of git-synched solutions to
| note taking and todo management? I used to use emacs org which
| was very good in the beginning yet somehow started to overgrow
| to the point where I found myself more in organizing than get
| stuff done.
| pbronez wrote:
| That would definitely be helpful. This tool looks cool, but I
| need windows support.
| nyolfen wrote:
| mad props, this is extremely cool. i only wish i had it ten years
| ago so i wouldn't have my crap spread across one more system.
| filmgirlcw wrote:
| This 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!
| benrbray wrote:
| 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 discussion from a
| few days ago.
|
| [1] https://logseq.com/ [2] https://www.cerveau.app/ [3]https://l
| obste.rs/s/e5lx5p/what_note_taking_team_wiki_person...
| ontouchstart wrote:
| I am surprised to see there are 3,365 commits of this project
| with a 5-year gap: https://github.com/xwmx/nb/graphs/contributors
|
| Perhaps there are some interesting stories that the author would
| like to tell?
| xwmx wrote:
| Yeah, it's a little unusual. No big story. I just did an early
| version and then didn't update it for a long time, then got
| hooked on working on it again over the past few months.
|
| I don't know what to say about the number of commits. My
| working style on this project has involved a lot of smaller
| commits and little feature iterations, maybe because of the
| single big script and single big README, or maybe something
| about the feedback loop of this style of development.
| erling wrote:
| This looks amazing! Love how simple yet powerful it is. Great
| job!
| philips wrote:
| 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]: https://www.passwordstore.org/
| xwmx wrote:
| Very cool. `pass` is awesome and I didn't realize it had the
| `pass edit` feature. I have written scripts that use the
| 1Password and Keychain command line tools, and I definitely
| want `nb` to use all three of these, maybe via a plugin.
| maxioatic wrote:
| This looks super cool and polished.
|
| That it's a 11401 line shell script is blowing my mind.
| dmd wrote:
| 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.
| https://github.com/xwmx/nb/blob/master/nb#L10423
| xwmx wrote:
| That particular function, `nb show`, is a big `if` statement
| checking the file type and environment for available tools.
| I'm more than happy for suggestions and / or pull requests
| for optimizing that.
|
| Note that Bash is a weird language that doesn't provide
| language features found in normal languages, and this targets
| old Bash which doesn't even have associative arrays, so there
| are things that might look "wrong", but aren't necessarily in
| this context. That's a big part of what makes it interesting
| to code in.
| bachmeier wrote:
| Everyone should use the language of their choice. That said,
| looking over the code, I understand why Perl became popular as
| a shell replacement.
| pantulis wrote:
| The completeness of the tool combined with the madness of shell
| scripting. The author is a demigod, no doubt.
| maxioatic wrote:
| A shelligod, for sure
| mrpf1ster wrote:
| 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 is annoying. This
| solves so many problems haha.
|
| I noticed there's a way to tag bookmarks, is there a similar
| functionality for tagging notes?
| xwmx wrote:
| Cool, your use case is exactly one I hope it works for. I find
| that the notebooks are a really good way to organize by topic
| or project, and should work really well for classes, too. You
| can even archive a project or class notebook when it ends and
| still easily access, revive, or drop into the content.
|
| Tagging in _`nb`_ is really simple and is just a matter of
| putting hashtags in your documents and then searching for those
| hashtags using _`nb search`_ / _`nb q`_. _`nb <url>`_ makes
| tagging a little more convenient when bookmarking by providing
| a _`-t <tag1>,<tag2>...`_ / _`--tags <tag1>,<tag2>...`_ option
| and saving them in a dedicated _`## Tags`_ section in
| _`.bookmark.md`_ documents.
| vinebase-albert wrote:
| 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.
| etherio wrote:
| 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 host
| instances publicly with multiple users.
| hghghhhjuu wrote:
| If it's all just plain text, you could just put it on GitHub /
| gitlab and edit the files from the built in "raw" editors.
| xwmx wrote:
| Indeed, it is, and you can do exactly that.
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