minimal-zet

Create notes with minimal effort and maximal searchability. This is a minimal version of cmd-zet.

Note: 💥 cmd-zet is deprecated: keg/kn is the successor.

What does it?

Each note creation triggers the creation of a folder with the current timestamp as name. In the folder, a Readme.md-"master"-file gets created, where you can write your notes, and give it a title. Additionally, you can add any files, like screenshots or audio files into the same folder. This goes very nicely with the Zettelkasten-method, but also with the search of remote repository platforms like github or gitlab.

How to use it?

Step 0 Dependencies

• Make sure, you installed Bash 4.0 and pandoc

Step 1 Create git-repositories and corresponding bash variables

• Each directory with your notes (or zettels in a Zettelkasten) has to be a git-repository. For short, we will refer to all those directories as zet-directories. If you do not want to use a remote repository in the internet, you can initialize one on your machine with git init --bare, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/31590993.
• Each zet-directory has to have an initialized config-variable by ${CONF[zet.<directory name>] := <directory path>}. Look at the private-zet-directory in the zet-code for example.
• After this setup, you are ready to use the minimal-zet-tool

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CRUD operations:

• Change current zet-directory by zet use <directory name> (Now all commands affect the current zet-directory. If you forgot in which one you are, you can check by zet current)

• Create a new note by zet create <note name>. After you saved the file, a git-commit is automatically triggered

• The same holds for zet delete <note name>

• Analogously, you can edit a note by zet edit <note name> or zet edit <timestamp>. If nothing changed, nothing gets committed.

• You can check the total number of notes in the current zet-directory by zet count

Searching:

• By zet find <xyz> you can trigger a pcre-search for xyz in the note titles
• More sophisticated search options have to be added... For now, you can always jump in the current zet-directory and "grep" your way to your notes. For that I suggest aliases of the form zet use <directory.name> && cd <directory> in your .zshrc/.bashrc.

Changes summary

Contains the minimum of "core" functionalities of cmd-zet. The following things changed:

• All video casting features for youtube are removed (This removes the dependency on yt)
• zet-directories are matched exactly and not partly when switching the current zet-directory (e.g. "zet.work" and "zet.work1" are different)
• category-features are removed. You do not need fancy categories, if you have an awesome search
• URL-features are removed

Legal

Copyright of the original code belongs to Rob Muhlestein rob@rwx.gg
Released under Apache-2.0 License
See also https://youtube.com/rwxrob