Productivity note-taking in the terminal

.notesrc

n() {
  if [ $1="today" ];
  then
    $EDITOR ~/notes/`date +%y%m%d`
  else
    $EDITOR ~/notes/"$*"
  fi
}
nls() {
  ls -c ~/notes/ | grep "$*"
}
ns() {
  egrep -RHi "$*" ~/notes/*
}
nc() {
  cat ~/notes/"$*"
}

ReadMe.md

These bash functions slightly improved from[0], once added to your .bashrc, will enable your bash with powerful note-taking and retrieval capabilities:

• n today opens a note named after today's date YYMMDD
• n awesome opens a note named awesome
• ns git will search for all references to git in your notes
• nc awesome will dump the content of awesome
• nls 06 will list all notes that contain 06 in their name

stan@st-stan1:~$ ns git
/home/stan/notes/git:## git checkout and track a remote branch
/home/stan/notes/git:  git fetch origin jim-orders-collapsetax
/home/stan/notes/git:  git checkout -t origin/jim-orders-collapsetax
/home/stan/notes/150612:  git config branch.*branch-name*.rebase true
/home/stan/notes/150612:  git config branch.autosetuprebase always --global (or .gitconfig)
/home/stan/notes/150425:  git grep -l 'original_text' | xargs sed -i 's/original_text/new_text/g'

[0] http://lifehacker.com/5592047/turn-your-command-line-into-a-fast-and-simple-note-taking-tool

[ $1="today" ] - are you serious?