Top 4 Go Plaintext Projects

klog

6 516 7.4 Go

Command line tool for time tracking in a human-readable, plain-text file format. (by jotaen)

Project mention: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-12

I came up with a file format for time-tracking, which lets me store the data in plain-text files in a human-friendly notation. I also built a corresponding CLI tool for evaluating the files on the terminal.
I’ve been using it almost daily for the past couple of years, and so far it has served me quite well.
Project site / docs: https://klog.jotaen.net
File spec: https://github.com/jotaen/klog/blob/main/Specification.md

html2text

2 514 0.0 Go

Golang HTML to plaintext conversion library (by jaytaylor)
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ledger

1 436 8.1 Go

Command line double-entry accounting program (by howeyc)

Project mention: Ask HN: A Finance Tracker | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-20

Have you seen https://github.com/howeyc/ledger

textnote

3 175 6.1 Go

Simple tool for creating and organizing daily notes on the command line

Project mention: My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-19

I love the idea of using plain text files for note taking and task tracking. As others have commented on specific tools and workflows that make this easy for them to stick with, I thought I'd add mine. I use textnote [0], which is a tool I built for exactly this workflow but is hopefully flexible enough to accommodate many of the similar processes mentioned here. It simply opens a plain text file in your terminal and provides lightweight tooling for tracking by date and rolling up previous notes into archives if desired.
Thanks for opening another great discussion of plain text note taking as a productivity tool!
[0] https://github.com/dkaslovsky/textnote

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).