[aedocw]

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 notes directory is committed to git then pushed up. This lets me keep my notes directory in sync across machines, and available via web (gitea).

  note () {
   DATE=`date +"%Y%m%d"` 
   TS=`date +"%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S"` 
   FILE=$HOME/Documents/notes/$DATE.txt 
   notegitpull
   echo $TS >> $FILE
   vi $FILE
   notegitpush
  }
  
  notegitpull () {
   pushd $HOME/Documents/notes
   if ping -c 1 git.server &> /dev/null
   then
    git pull
   else
    echo "Offline, not pulling changes"
   fi
   popd
  }
  
  notegitpush () {
   pushd $HOME/Documents/notes
   git pull
   git add \*
   git commit -m "Autocommit due to edit of $FILE"
   if ping -c 1 git.server &> /dev/null
   then
    git push origin main
   else
    echo "Offline, not pushing changes up"
   fi
   popd
  }

[ehnto]

I have something similar, I made it check for a .notes folder in the current working directory so that I can have per-project notes just by adding that folder in first. I want to add custom filenames as I'm finding that easier to mentally keep track of, like "integration-bug-factfinding.note" is a little easer to find again than "12-22-2022.note". Currently I have these commands:

note //Adds a note to the current days notefile, in the current directory's .notes folder if present or ~/.notes if not

edit-note //Opens the same notefile as above in a text editor

notes //Concats todays notefiles echos displays them

all-notes //Concats all notes ever and echos them, useful to grep for keywords across my history of notes