my-own-words

This is a small tool that I have created to keep safe all those words/expressions that I come across when I'm learning a new language. Hopefully, it will help you too.

Some things it allows you to do are:

• Create as many lists as you want.
• Save as many words or expressions as you want.
• Delete lists, words or expressions and definitions.
• And some other things and many others that are missing but I will try to add as soon as possible.

my-own-words also cares about you and:

• It won't duplicate your lists.
• Will not duplicate your words or expressions.
• It won't duplicate your word definitions.

Installation

npm dance

npm install -g my-own-words

yarn vals

yarn global add my-own-words

Usage

Attention: The lists are created in a directory within your home directory with a .json format and for the moment all words and their definitions are sorted alphabetically by default.

add

my-own-words -l 'italian' -w 'Ciao' -d 'Hi'

As you can see, the add command receives three parameters:

• -l or --list: name of the list where you want to add a new word. If the list does not exist, it is created.
• -w or --word: word or expression you want to add.
• -d or --definition: definition of the word or expression you want to add.

To add a new definition to a word simply add the word with the new definition again.

list

my-own-words list

If the list command does not receive any parameters, it prints a list of available lists in the console.

If you want to list the words or expressions in a list you must include the parameter -l or --list with the list name (Just as described above, in the add command).

remove

my-own-words remove -l 'italian' -w 'Ciao' -d 'Hi'

Depending on the parameters the command receives, it will do the following:

• If it receive only the name of a list ( with -l or --list), it will completely delete this list if it exists.
• If it receive a word (should therefore also receive the name of a list), it will delete that word or expressions and its definitions.
• If it receive a definition (need to receive the other two parameters listed above), it will remove that definition from the selected word or expression.

new

my-own-words new -l 'spanish'

Creates a new list with the specified name (with -l or --list).

print

my-own-words print -l 'italian'

Creates a Markdown file from the specified list (-l or --list) in the same directory as the other lists.

In the future I'll add more format options

help

Due to Yargs, all commands have --help or -h available.

Thanks for stopping by. If you have any questions, want to help or simply want to make a comment or report any error let me know.