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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:27:15 -0700 From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> To: svlug@lists.svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] looking for text based note taking tool On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:15:18 +0300 (IDT) Ira Abramov <lists-svlug@ira.abramov.org> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: >> Save all of the notes into a special directory (this can be >> automated). Make queries using standard tools such as grep(1) and >> find(1). Edit them using your favorite editor. Etc. > ugly. $EDITOR ~/.notes/`date "+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"` > I sugest editing the "notes" as messages in a Mutt mail folder, saved > as a Maildir. you get a subject and content for each note. a date of > last update, an individual file you can grep and edit in other tools, > a search function, a date filter, and a very good set of tools to > encrypt notes, forward them as Email, print and whatnot. Remember mode under XEmacs has a similar set of advantages. > another idea - get a wiki that works well in lynx or w3m and has a > "Recently Changed Pages" feature. There's a couple elisp based wikis IIRC. Not sure if they have a changed feature. ===