Note

I have always hated every single note / reminder / whatever application that was around. After writing the Kary Framework, I started creating a very simple and pretty note software so that I could use for real. This is the result.

What's special about note?

• Super easy to work with
• Very minimal
• One of the most complicated Kary Framework UI codes in history and really the most complicated Terminal UI layout of all time! (have you noticed the float divs inside it?)
• Fully cross platform
• Note uses plain text to store it's notes hence the end result is fully printable and rebate
• Plain text storage → so that you can put your storage in your Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive or whatever you have!
• Fully cross platform! with a cloud synced system you can even have your notes synced all over your devices!

How to use it

Seeing your notes

After you installed it you can read your notes using note command in terminal:

% note

That will result:

Adding notes

To add a new note you can simply write your note after the note command for example adding hello world will be:

% note hello world

For the notes that inculde special characters bash may have problem with like ' you can use the command:

% note add

And then a prompt like this will open:

There you can write a note like whatever that is in your mind!

Removing notes

To remove the note you can use note rm command, For example you want to remove note 2 and 5, You should use the note rm this way:

% note rm 2 5

Editing notes

Editing notes is just as easy. All you have to do to edit a note is to specify the note index after the edit command:

% note edit 12

And then thanks to the Kary Frameworks's text box implementation, the pervious note can be loaded into the input box as:

Setting it up

Step 1

First of all you'll need to make an empty text file and name it whatever you want and save it in whatever form you want. In a UNIX system I would recommend perpending the name with a dot so the file goes hidden. Now for example the path to our file is

~/.notes

This file is going to contain your notes so if you place it under your dropbox folder for example you'll get dropbox sync as well!

~/.notepath

And write the address of your storage file in it. In our previous file we used ~/.notes so let's use that (remember just the address no spacing of any kind - tab, space, new line - after it and before it)

Download the note's release package from Note's Release Page (a zip file containing Note.exe and Kary.Foundation.dll), exact it and copy them together to whatever you want

Download a copy of run.vala. Now replace this line:

string ArcadeCommand = "<ReplaceWithThePathOfYourArcadeDirectoryAndAddress>";

With this:

string ArcadeCommand = "mono '<where-you-copied-your-files>'";

**NOTE : ** Remember that the string must be mono ' + the path of your file + ' like the example in the top

Now compile the file using:

valac -o name --pkg posix ./run.vala

So the shortcut is ready now. You can install it in /bin or /usr/local/bin in a unix system (and there is no point to create a shortcut for Windows systems anyway...) like this:

sudo mv ./note /bin

Or the local bin (whatever...)

License

Note - Super minimal terminal note app
Copyright (c) 2015-2016 Pouya Kary <[email protected]>


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