jottem

jottem is a tool used to keep track of terminal sessions by creating temporary notes corresponding to a terminal specific session for those who either have a lot of thoughts running through their mind at any given time or just a lot of terminals/tmux sessions open

installation

Simply put the jot script on your path (such as moving to /usr/bin) and run

$ jot

anytime to jot down some notes about your current work. It will prompt you accordingly

how it works

If this is a terminal session that has never had any notes taken for it (the numerical result of running the command tty) then new notes will be created in /tmp with the name jottem_<session number>.txt.

If this is either an existing session or a session with a repeat number (which is bound to happen) jottem will give you three options:

1. edit the current notes (just append to what already exists)
2. archive the notes by moving them to ~./jottem_archive and renaming the notes to have the date appended to the filename
3. delete the notes and start fresh like crisp autumn air

usage

Either simply run

$ jot

or, if you'd like to view notes for an existing session run

$ jot --view

TODO

account for more possibilities such as:

• you create multiple terminal sessions in one day and want to archive multiple notes (right now it overwrites the archived notes)
• add help message
• ?