t

t

t is an minimalistic tool to take notes.

A version of this README is available in portuguese.

Philosophy

Instead of using a web editor or some web browser disguised as a native app, or even a giant and sluggish app to simple write text notes and store it on someone else "cloud" with their proprietary software and APIs we rather choose to use something way more simple, a combination of two very well documented, free and trusted tools: git and markdown.

Design

t is designed to be completely simple and out of your way. Especially when taking notes, sometimes all you want is somewhere to drop a bunch of thoughts.

When writing a note, t will open your EDITOR (or fallback to vim). As soon that you write all you need and quit the app, t will push your note to the configured git server. That's it.

Usage

t has a small set of commands:

  • list or l will list your notes indexed by it's modification date, while piping to the default PAGER on your system (usually less (1)).

  • create or c will create a new note using the current date. You can supply a title if you want

  • edit or e will reopen the note on your EDITOR, by default it will edit the last one. You can supply the index of the note you want to edit.

  • show or s will pipe the note to glow

  • share or sh will throw the note on the configured shared service, it defaults to a public instance of rascunho hosted at eletrotupi.com, but you can customize to your paste service.

You can check the man page man t if you need any help.

Installing

For now, you can only install by cloning this repository and running the installation script.

So open your favorite terminal and fire these commands:

  • git clone https://git.sr.ht/~porcellis/t
  • make && sudo make install

If you have any interest in packaging this software to your distro of choice, please let me know, so I can update the steps here.

Note: By now, the show commands depends on glow to be installed.

Contributing

The plain, good and old git-way of contributing.

There's a couple of dependencies, namely git, go, less, and glow. All probably are available to install trough your package manager (apk on Alpine, pacman on Arch, apt on Debian-based distros etc). After that, you can use make get to fetch all dependencies and start hacking!

Send your patches to my public-inbox at ~porcellis/public-inbox@lists.sr.ht

(Remember to use plain text)!

Roadmap

There's a lot of things I want to implement on t, here is some of them:

  • Add a improved visualization when displaying notes, probably using ncurses
  • ~~Support OS Pager when listing notes (this can be achieved by t list | less -r)~~
  • Delete a note
  • Make setup through t (t init would create the notes repository, set a remote, etc).
  • Add PGP support for notes (this is a must)
  • Allow editing by title of note
  • A Companion UI app tw

License

Under terms of the GNU GPL-3.0 License. Check LICENSE.

$ git clone https://git.eletrotupi.com/git/t