nogo

nogo is a command line utility that will create and parse a directory of markdown files for simplified organized note taking. nogo will maintain a simple directory structure and will launch your editor of choice to edit your notes.

Examples

Help

Get some help

~ nogo

nogo - the notes helper

actions:

  nogo help

  nogo new
  nogo new [topic]
  nogo new [topic] [event]

  nogo ls
  nogo ls [topic]

  nogo edit
  nogo edit [topic]
  nogo edit [topic] [note name substring]

Browse your existing notes

List the topics that you've created (similar to Evernote's notebooks)

~ nogo ls

all topics:
   meetings
   reference

List the individual notes in a specific topic. Note that what you pass as the argument can be a substring of the actual topic as well and nogo will find it

~ nogo ls reference

notes in reference:
   golang
   python

Create a new note

Create a new file with no arguments

~ nogo new
Enter the notes topic: reference
Enter the event name: ruby

Create a new file with some arguments

~ nogo new reference ruby
~

Edit existing notes

Edit a note with substring of both the topic and the individual note

~ nogo edit ref py
~

Edit a note in a specific topic, even when you don't remember what it was called

~ nogo edit reference

Files in reference:
   golang
   python

What file would you like to edit in reference? python

Completion and substrings

Most nogo commands don't actually require you to write out the whole topic or event name. For example, if you have a topic "meetings" and an event "meeting with my manager about cats", you can type nogo edit mee cats and nogo will automatically find the note you're looking for.

Configuration

Editor

By default, this is set to vim. If you don't like vim, you can set the $EDITOR environment variable to your test based editor of choice. You likely already have this set (to vim or emacs for example) if you use the command line to do things that require you to edit files.

Notes path

By default, this is set to be ~/notes. Simply set the NOGODIR environment variable if you'd like this to be different.

export NOGODIR="/Users/marpaia/Desktop"

Requirements

The only requirement is that you have Go installed. If you don't have Go installed and, for some reason, would like to keep it that way, you can download one here: http://gobuild.io/download/github.com/marpaia/nogo

You can install go from http://golang.org/doc/install or via a package manager.

Installation

Use go get to install nogo:

go get github.com/marpaia/nogo

Once you do that, the nogo binary will be installed at $GOPATH/bin. It's assumed that if you have a $GOPATH set up, that you've also added $GOPATH/bin to your path, but if you haven't, you should do that.

For more information on GOPATH and such, refer to http://golang.org/doc/code.html#GOPATH

External dependencies

This project has no external dependencies other than the Go standard library.

Hacking

If you'd like to customize nogo, do so as you would any other Go project. Use go get as described above to download and install the software, edit the code in whatever way you see fit, and execute go install github.com/marpaia/nogo

Contributing

Please contribute and help improve this project!

• Fork the repo
• Improve the code
• Submit a pull request

Areas for improvement

Check out the issues labeled "enhancement" for easy contribution/improvement ideas. This might be especially interesting to you if you'd like to cut your teeth contributing to open source software as this is a pretty simple piece of code that can be improved in a lot of ways.

https://github.com/marpaia/nogo/issues?labels=enhancement

Contact

• Mike Arpaia
• [email protected]
• @mikearpaia