tnotes

A simple tool to create and manage your Markdown notes easily.

Installation

To install tnotes you can edit the Makefile to match your local setup (tnotes is installed into the /usr/local/bin by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to install tnotes (if necessary as root).

sudo make install

To uninstall tnotes, just run:

sudo make uninstall

Usage

tnotes can create, rename and delete notes.

We can do that you by using the options listed bellow:

• -n, --new, new <path>: create a new note to the path informed, it creates a folder if it does not exists;
  • -t, --title, title <title>: add title to note metadata;
  • -s, --subtitle, subtitle <subtitle>: add subtitle to note metadata;
  • --tags, tags <tags> add tags to note metadata;
• -l, --list, list <path>: list notes on a given path;
• -o, --open, open <path>: open note from a given path;
• -m, --mv, mv <name> <new name>: rename note file withe the name informed as argument;
• -r, --rm rm <name>: deletes a note with the title received as argument on the path informed with --path;

Examples:

$ tnotes --new test.md --title="Test Note Title" --subtitle="Subtitle note" --tags="test,markdown"

Create a note named test.md. This note will have the follow metadata:

---
title: "Test Note Title"
subtitle: "Subtitle note"
date: "2021-02-11 15:17:32"
tags: ["test", "markdown"]

---

And that’s it!

tnotes+dmenu

We scripts supports dmenu as an interface, so you can list, add, rename and delete your notes quickly running a single command:

$ dmenu_tnotes

You can inform dmenu_tnotes where your notes is stored so you can manage them. Let’s say you store your notes on ~/notes/, you can export a environment variable called TNOTES_PATH and call dmenu_tnotes:

$ export TNOTES_PATH=~/notes/; dmenu_tnotes

Team

Edimar Calebe Castanho (Calebe94)	Gabriel Gaboardi (Gabo)

License

All software is covered under GNU General Public License v3.0.