A simple, yet powerful and handy terminal based note taking python app


Keywords
Notes, Management, Terminal, App, console-application, note-taking, python, terminal-based
License
MIT
Install
pip install termnote==1.0.9

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TermNote

A simple, yet powerful and handy terminal based note taking python app

Demo

demo

Requirement

  • requires python (>2 or 3)

Usage

  • Install with pip
sudo pip install termnote

Note: For the sake of LAZYNESS, 'tn' is a shortcut for 'termnote'

  • Create your 1st note
tn my first note
  • Write "I love cheeze" and close editor. Note is created. Now lets find the note by keywords
tn cheez

or by filename

tn first no
  • List all notes
tn

Customization

You can change default editor and path by adding below lines in your '~/.profile' file

export EDITOR="[Your favourite text editor. Default is 'vi']"
export TN_STORAGE="[Directory where notes to be saved. Default is '~/.termnote']"

Multi user shared notes

You can also have a common shared notes space for all users with following steps

  • Create a shared notes directory
sudo mkdir /var/termnote
sudo chmod a+rwx /var/termnote
  • Set environment variable globally in '/etc/profile'
export TN_STORAGE="/var/termnote"