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Discussion on: Simple note taking from the command line

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dirk lüsebrink

a plain text note file is the very best idea you can ever have. Just looked it up, i started mine april 2006, so with more than 10 yrs in it now. Think about it, that was a time when lots of URL web based note taking services where all en vouge, all the craze. Most of them long gone. My plain text notes still there. But while we're talking, as i'm working from the command line, i prefer jotting my notes directly from inside vim. It's easy to have it open in a screen pane on its own all the time. Editing features, especially multi-line, are much more robust when working from vim. I also had this notes alias once, but found i hardly any improvments in convenience. What i'm working on though is sharing the notes txt file to smartphone mobile view, for distributed view/edits and to build a browser plugin so i can append urls and comments directly from chrome. But that is a story for another time,