note

A lightweight command-line note management tool for Unix systems. Uses markdown file format for notes.

Adding a new task

# This opens your `$EDITOR` to compose a new task. 
# First line becomes the "head" 
# Remaining lines become the "body" 
# Empty file → aborts without creating a task 
note new
# This does it in one shot
note new "Review pull requests" "The code looks good to me"

Get or update task by Id

# Get a task by it's Id and print it to the stdout
note get 1 --stdout
# Update Task in default editor
note get 1

List all tasks

note list

Delete one of more tasks

note done 1 2

Build and Install

./build.sh

Development

The development mode can be set via environment variables. This creates an alternative database file $HOME/.dev_tasks.bin for the tasks processes in development mode.

ENVIRONMENT="DEVELOPMENT" note new