notesbash – A notes management TUI written in bash
Hello everybody! We (lukeflo and me) have made a little notes management tui written in bash based on fff by Dylan Araps, which we've improved a lot to make it a notes management tui. It uses your editor of choice to edit and create notes, you can fuzzy search your notes and search them by tags you give them by writing them in the markdown yaml or emacs org header. All in all it turned out to be a surprisingly good project that we now want to refine after just releasing v1.0, so any feedback, suggestions or criticism is very welcome!
notesbash – A notes management TUI written in bash launched on August 3, 2024 with 23 votes, #936 of 5,471 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Notesbash is a terminal-based notes management application written in bash. It lets users create and edit notes using their preferred text editor, then organize and retrieve them through fuzzy search and tag filtering based on markdown YAML or Emacs org headers. Built on the fff file manager, notesbash provides a lightweight note-taking solution for users who prefer working in the terminal.
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From the sources
notesbash - Mirror of the original repo which has been moved to https://codeberg.org/carmatani/notesbash
notesbash is a tool for managing personal notes from the command line. That means one can use it to create, reorder, move, delete notes; search through them by keyword/tags or recursivley by filename; link them with entries from your main bibtex file; or simply open a note. All this is done from a TUI inside your terminal completley written in bash . The editing of file content itself is done using your editor of choice. Thus, things like syntax highlighting or auto completing the notes text is handled by the editor, not notesbash . But you can specify which editor will be used. Furthermore, notesbash offers configurable templates for different file formats which makes editing new notes…from codeberg.org
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