Keeping notes
Δευτέρα, 10 Ιούλιος 2006, 07:45Do you have a long todo list (saved in your head)?
Do you always have zilions of open xterms?
Do you keep notes within files with names like foo, bar, how_to_cook_a_couple_of_eggs, etc?
The solution (or just a solution).
apt-get install note
After installation, uncompress and copy the file /usr/share/doc/note/examples/noterc.gz to $HOME/.noterc. Then edit it to your liking. You need this if you want to enable encryption or disable the interactive mode (interactive mode sucks).
Now, you can keep notes at any time by just running note in one of your open xterms (or open one more). You can search your notes with -s argument. And you can organize your notes by topic, just by add ing your topic in the first line of a note quoted inside slashes.
Works great when compined with other shell utilities, especially grep.