Comments on: jn, a journal notebook tool

By: Joey1978

Joey1978 — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:09:40 +0000

Don’t forget about bournal http://becauseinter.net/bournal/

It has fancy encryption, used to be ccrypt, but now it’s gpg, so heavy duty for all those juicy details.

By: A built-in diary « Motho ke motho ka botho

A built-in diary « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:58:03 +0000

[...] A few months ago I pointed out Ben Winston‘s tiny journal tool, aptly called jn. [...]

By: evidex

evidex — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:59:07 +0000

This is a really nice little script (program?). Seeing as it write to a simple text file, you could easily make a cron job to have it copy to a web directory, and have an incredibly simple online blog.

The only thing I could see to change is a slight typo in the text that comes up when you run it with an unknown arguement (jn -unknown). It reads,

That’s not (currently) and option!
Type jn -h for the help screen.

When it should be

That’s not (currently) an option!
Type jn -h for the help screen.

A minor nitpick. Well done Ben

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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:05:44 +0000

[...] jn, a journal notebook tool The “installer” — which really just adds a line or so to your .bashrc file for ease of startup — is adjustable on several points, so you can change the location and name of your journal, if you want. [...]

By: Mobilediesel

Mobilediesel — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:32:38 +0000

There’s probably as many ways to do this as there are people who want to type notes at the command line. I have something similar to what you posted in the pastebin and might use a combination of jn my note function.

By: Parka

Parka — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:01:44 +0000

Sry for spamming your blog:D
But somehow some stuff is missing above.
Here is a pastebin link: http://archlinux.pastebin.com/H45sX3qp
Greetings,
Parka

By: Parka

Parka — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:56:09 +0000

Is an external program needed for this?
I have a simple bash function inside my .barhrc:
”
nn() {
local NOTE_FILE=$HOME/.notes
#if file doesn’t exist, create it
[[ -f "$NOTE_FILE" ]] || touch “$NOTE_FILE”

#no arguments, edit file
if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
vim “+set number” “$NOTE_FILE”
elif (( $1 )); then tail -”$1″ “$NOTE_FILE”
elif [[ "$1" == "-s" ]]; then /bin/grep -E –color=always -i -C 1 “$2″ “${NOTE_FILE}”
elif [[ "$1" == "-h" || $1 == "--help" ]]; then
printf “nn [options|note]: Make quick notes\n”
printf “Options: \t\twrite to ‘${NOTE_FILE}’\n”
printf “\t\t\tshow ‘${NOTE_FILE}’\n”
printf “\t\tshow last lines of ‘${NOTE_FILE}’\n”
printf “\t-s \tsearch ‘${NOTE_FILE}’ for \n”
#append all arguments to file
else
echo “>> ‘$@’” >> “$NOTE_FILE”
fi
}
”
It does basically the same.

By: Parka

Parka — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:54:34 +0000

Is actually an external program needed for this?
I have a simple bash function inside my .bashrc:

”
nn() {
local NOTE_FILE=$HOME/.notes
#if file doesn’t exist, create it
[[ -f "$NOTE_FILE" ]] || touch “$NOTE_FILE”

By: Molecula21

Molecula21 — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:15:54 +0000

TY Don! Worked for me!

By: Ben Winston

Ben Winston — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:37:42 +0000

Thanks for the patch Don, I’ve incorporated it.

Latest version: http://ompldr.org/vNnI2dQ/jn-0.3.1.tar