nickjj/notes
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A zero dependency shell script that makes it really simple to manage your text notes.
13 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 12 comments · first 2020-01-03 · latest 2026-04-25
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Plain text is great. 20+ years of my notes are in plain text, facilitated with https://github.com/nickjj/notes . Also been doing plain text invoicing for around 7 years with https://github.com/nickjj/invoice . There's also Plutus…
comment by nickjj · 2026-04-25 · in Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay -
…about organizing or perfect tags. Just brain dump the thought or notes and move on with life. https://github.com/nickjj/notes was created so I can type things like `notes hello world` and it inserts it for the correct YYYY-MM or `notes` to…
comment by nickjj · 2025-12-11 · in My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020) -
I've been doing something similar for 20+ years at: https://github.com/nickjj/notes - Running `notes` will open this month's notes for YYYY_MM.txt in your default $EDITOR - Running `notes hello world` will append `hello world` to…
comment by nickjj · 2024-02-19 · in My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020) -
…script to help create notes in the most friendly way I could think of from the command line at https://github.com/nickjj/notes . Totally works fine for a knowledge log when you're streaming high level details from your brain into text. I…
comment by nickjj · 2021-12-03 · in Keep a Log -
…directory in your editor and casually browse your notes if you want to go down memory lane. [0]: https://github.com/nickjj/notes
comment by nickjj · 2021-06-30 · in Incremental note-taking -
…also have extensive documentation and a screencast video going over them. Here's a few examples: - https://github.com/nickjj/notes - https://github.com/nickjj/invoice - https://github.com/nickjj/wait-until And a few recent scripts to…
comment by nickjj · 2021-06-12 · in Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself? -
Along similar lines, nickjj also has a similar (but bash) notes script at: https://github.com/nickjj/notes
comment by runjake · 2021-02-22 · in Show HN: Note, my simple command-line note taking app -
…Over the decades I've settled on a YYYY-MM.txt file, or 1 file per month. Last year I open sourced https://github.com/nickjj/notes which is similar'ish to this tool. It supports opening your notes in any editor (using $EDITOR), launches…
comment by nickjj · 2021-02-15 · in Show HN: Simple tool for creating and organizing daily notes on the command line -
…Obsidian if I wanted to see things visually. When I tried it out briefly it was really solid. [0]: https://github.com/nickjj/notes
comment by nickjj · 2020-12-28 · in Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more? -
…of notes saved like this. I also open sourced a zero dependency Bash script that handles this at: https://github.com/nickjj/notes It supports adding notes in 3 different ways: notes hello world appends the text to the YYYY-MM.txt dated…
comment by nickjj · 2020-12-04 · in How I Manage My Random Daily Notes -
…a script that helps me easily create them in a few different ways without leaving the terminal: https://github.com/nickjj/notes Then I let grep and friends handle the problem of searching as needed. I don't really worry about things like…
comment by nickjj · 2020-04-04 · in Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/snippets? -
…auto-dated file. I ended up putting together this ~15 line Bash script which seems to do the trick: https://github.com/nickjj/notes I've been using plain text notes since 2001, although I only recently created this script. So far so good.
comment by nickjj · 2020-01-10 · in Managing my personal knowledge base