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Memo - Note Taking, Unix-style

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The Linux Rain; By Andrew Powell 		Mail this story
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We all take notes in various ways. Whether it's old fashioned sticky notes littering the front of your PC monitor, an app on your smartphone or simply using your brain to take a 'mental note' (if your memory is that good!), it's a useful activity. How about note taking on the command-line? And in a really Unix-y, flexible way? Memo might be for you.

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rnturn ·
I've had something like this for more years than I care to divulge (hint: it was originally written when I was running Consensys's UNIX). It saves notes in text files under a yyyy/mm/dd directory tree and automatically points to a new "day" directory at midnight via cron. "Where are the notes from my conversation with Bob?" Oh yeah: "find $HOME/daily_notes/ -exec grep -l Bob {} ;"

All I'd need to do to use it from the command line would be to change the editor command to "emacs -nw".

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