longnote

Terminal function for quick note-taking with date and tags.

To make a minimal note while doing whatever it is you do on your computer,

open terminal with spotlight
type n "your note" "a tag" hit enter
command + h to hide terminal

View your longnote by

opening spotlight and typing longnote; you should be able to read your notes without opening the file, or
navigate to the file and press space to preview file, or
open the file in a csv viewer, such as excel

To do

enable line breaks, quotation marks and other icky characters
cleanly display previous n notes in terminal
don't require quote marks
pick date format
once columns are off, they stay off – guarantee that each new entry starts in the first column
preview methods only work while there are few notes...
instead of adding tags as second argument, make any word after hash a tag