Notes

Notes is a simple command line notes application for storing quick, short notes.

Licensed under GPLv3.

Installation

From Binaries

There are binaries for Linux and macOS on the Releases page.

From source

Notes can be built from source and installed with cargo.

cargo install notes-rs

Building

Notes can be built from source on the stable, beta, and nightly compilers. You must have a rust compiler and cargo installed.

$ git clone https://github.com/alidiusk/notes-rs
$ cd notes-rs
$ cargo build --release
$ ./target/release/notes --version
0.2.1

Example Usage

# prints all notes (without descriptions). there are no notes yet.
$ notes

# creates a new note with the given content, no tags, no description.
$ notes new "Learn to use notes-rs."

$ notes new "This note has tags and a description." --tags learning --desc "test note."

# get all notes and display their descriptions
$ notes get --desc

# get all notes with the `learning` tag
$ notes get --tags learning

# change the tag on note 1
$ notes edit 1 --tags "new-tag"

# delete note 0; there will be a confirmation prompt displaying its content.
$ notes delete 0

Features

• Notes consisting of an id, time, tags, content, and description.
• Creation of notes on the command line, through an editor, or from a file.
• Optional tags to add context to notes.
• Optional description to provide further information for a note.
• Automatically managed note creation / edit times.
• Modifications of a note's content, tags, or description.
• Retrieval of all notes, a specific note, or all notes with a given tag(s).
• Deletion of a note given its id.
• Custom notes path with the --path option (default is XDG data directory).