Oughtve
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Shotgun: $105.95.
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Beat-up Olds: $2000.
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Chemistry 101: $36.
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Remembering “niktu”: Priceless.
What?
Oughtve is a very simple command-line- and directory-based
notation tool, always at your fingertips to avoid the few
seconds/minutes/aeons that invariably cause you to lose the
thought you had.
Yeah. It lets you make notes. And read them later.
Why?
Because you will forget.
Features
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Notes are grouped based on the working directory they are
written from. You might, for example, define a group for
each of your coding projects’ top directories: any notes
you write in or under those directories will be grouped
respectively. -
Notes can be “struck out” or closed so that they do not
appear in the default listings (e.g. to emulate simple todo
lists.) -
Sets of notes in a group can be enclosed as a “chapter”, or
a completed section. For example, one might close a section
once all items for the 0.3.0 release have been completed.
This starts a new section and removes the old one from the
default views. -
The directory grouping always looks progressively higher in
the hierarchy until it finds a defined group, all the way up
to the default group bound at / if it comes across none on
the way. -
The normal directory lookup and various other things can be
overridden with option switches. Sometimes you want to write
a note in a specific group from somewhere else in the system:
just specify the group name. -
A group’s notes can be exported to JSON or YAML (rudimentary.)
Examples
An extremely curt introduction is found in doc/HOWTO.using.
I like to rename my script to “–”, so that I can use the
following to enter a note:
$ -- Remember to actually write the HOWTO.
Requirements
Gems:
- dm-core
- data_objects
- do_sqlite3
Other:
- UNIXy system.
Status
Experimental rewrite of an age-old workhorse of mine. The
intent of this release is to figure out if anyone else
finds this useful. It is not feature-complete, nor
presumably bug-free.
Please break it. ‘Some’ robustness is needed.
Where?
Only at Github. Instead of
using Git, if you prefer, you may use the download link to
get yourself a tarball of the source.
Who Do I Complain To?
- oughtve MEOW projects purr kittensoft rawr org.
- IRC channel #oughtve on Freenode (“rue”, in case I
am not the only other person on the channel.)