notem

A super simple note taking system ✏️. Stop adding text files to your desktop, start writing plain text notes with one command in the terminal.

Usage

$ notem goal planning
# Opens ~/notes/2017-10-04-goal-planning in your default editor.

Then your notes are sorted by date and easily searched using notem.

List all notes:

$ notem --list

Search for a note by its title (like grep):

$ notem --search goal planning

Use notem --help for a full list of commands.

Editor

The default editor is determined first by the EDITOR environment variable, with several fallbacks to common text editors. To change this update your shell's EDITOR environment variable:

export EDITOR="/usr/bin/nano"

Notes directory

By default all notes are saved in a folder called notes in the home directory. To change this update the NOTEM_PATH environment variable:

# Use absolute path
export NOTEM_PATH="/Users/computer-name/my-custom-path"

Install

Notem is written in Rust, so use Cargo to install:

$ cargo install notem