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The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applicationsThe Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applicationsPosted Feb 15, 2007 5:36 UTC (Thu) by roelofs (guest, #2599)In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications by flewellyn Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications You forgot about one of the simplest and easiest note-taking programs: cat! He did mention that he was restricting the field to graphical apps. It would be hard to argue that cat falls into that category (so to speak). ;-) FWIW, I have at least one xterm with a "vi /tmp/foo" open at all times; it becomes a dumping ground for almost anything of interest, from long (but useful) command lines to geek stuff on sale to "to do" lists to URLs to scorekeeping to code snippets to ... (And if I changed it to gvim, it would even count as graphical...) Greg
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The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications Posted Feb 15, 2007 14:46 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] It seems odd to keep your notes in /tmp.
(Myself I use a directory full of tiny files, and Emacs dired. Maybe I should use remember.el instead...)
The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications Posted Feb 15, 2007 17:16 UTC (Thu) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link] It seems odd to keep your notes in /tmp.Well, obviously (or not?) I don't do that on multiuser machines. But on single-user machines, I find "/tmp" is a tiny bit easier to type than "~", and like many programmers, I optimize for ease of use (i.e., I'm lazy :-) ). Greg
The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications Posted Feb 20, 2007 20:45 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] So these are very-short-term scribbles that aren't meant to survive areboot?
(Myself I use unsaved buffers in XEmacs for that. Why not just open a file
The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications Posted Feb 24, 2007 16:53 UTC (Sat) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link] So these are very-short-term scribbles that aren't meant to survive a reboot?No, they're both short- and long-term. The short-term ones I delete after I'm done with them; the long-term ones accumulate. /tmp doesn't get wiped on my systems; that's an optional setting, and one I don't need. Greg
The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications Posted Feb 25, 2007 22:10 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Aha, that makes sense. I'd almost forgotten that systems could exist inwhich /tmp was not a tmpfs... :)
The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications Posted May 29, 2007 0:09 UTC (Tue) by tqk (guest, #29605) [Link] > > You forgot about one of the simplest and easiest note-taking programs: cat!> > He did mention that he was restricting the field to graphical apps. It would be hard to argue that cat falls into that category (so to speak). ;-)
Port it to perl, and toss in perl::Tk? Here's what I use:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $outfile = qq($ENV{HOME}/dox/things_to_remember.html);
open( THINGS, ">> $outfile" ) ||
print THINGS q( <li> ) . $now . q(<br>) . "\n";
while( <STDIN> ) {
print THINGS q( </pre>) . "\n\n";
__END__
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