Stupid shell script to manage markdown notes from cli.

Why

• I think nb is too complex just for taking notes.
• I don’t like the way notes handles searching.

Dependencies

• git – to keep notes tracked
• ripgrep – to search through note contents
• exa – to list notes and folders
• bat – to view notes with syntax highlighting
• A terminal text editor is recommended

How to use

Notes are stored in $NOTEDIR, which defaults to ~/notes.
Run note name to create and/or open ~/notes/name.md, or note notebook/name to create and/or open ~/notes/notebook/name.md. If you use vim/nvim as your $EDITOR, opening directories is supported as well by passing a path like note notebook/.

“Tags” are just words starting with the # symbol, with no space (for example #linux).

$ note --help
Usage: note [command|option] NOTE

If no command or option is provided, the program will open the NOTE path in nvim.
The default NOTE path is: /home/nithe/notes.

NOTE should refer to a subdirectory or a filename (without extension) within /home/nithe/notes.
Arguments without a leading '-' are treated as commands and must appear as the first positional argument.

Commands / Options:
  ls, -l, --list           List notes in the NOTE path
  rm, -d, --delete         Delete a note from the NOTE path
  s,  -s, --status         Show the Git status of the NOTE path
  v,  -v, --view           View the NOTE path using `bat`
  f,  -f, --find QUERY     Search for QUERY in notes content
  ft, -t, --tags TAGS      Search for notes by tags (separator-separated).
                           The separator can be:
                             - "or": regex OR match
                             - "and": inserts `.*` between tags (experimental)
                             - <space>: equivalent to OR
  -h, --help               Show this help message and exit

Intallation

Install script

sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nithe14/note/refs/heads/master/note > /usr/local/bin/note; sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/note

Install completions

Bash

sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nithe14/note/refs/heads/master/completions/note_completions.sh > /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/note

Fish

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nithe14/note/refs/heads/master/completions/note_completions.fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/note.fish

Zsh

Refer to your distro zsh documentation for installation details.
The completion script is available here: note_completions.zsh.

Completions

The autocompletion does not suggest options/commands cause there are too few to care about. Instead, it suggests files and directories from your $NOTEDIR.
Create your first note, and you’ll see how it works in practice.