Pannote

Installation

OSX

$ brew install xapian --with-python
$ pip install pannote

Fedora

$ dnf install xapian-bindings-python
$ pip install pannote

Ubuntu/Debian

$ apt-get install python-xapian
$ pip install pannote

Usage

Given a directory of text files, pannote will go and index those files using xapian. It uses an English stemmer. Then you give it a term and it will find all matching files. Each time it runs, it reindexes everything and deletes the database.

$ pannote --help

Usage: pannote [OPTIONS] DIRECTORY TERM

  A simple program that indexes a directory of text files and allows you to
  search it

Options:
  -0, --print0  separate matches with a null byte in output
  --help        Show this message and exit.

Pannote works really well with Facebook's PathPicker.

$ pannote /path/to/notes "isomorphic" | fpp

License

GPLv3