Top 11 Shell Note Projects

nb

48 6,275 9.3 Shell

CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

Project mention: Nb – note taking and archiving on the command line | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-03
notes

3 1,217 6.3 Shell

:pencil: Simple delightful note taking, with more unix and less lock-in. (by pimterry)
InfluxDB

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cli

1 144 0.0 Shell

A tiny CLI for HedgeDoc (by hedgedoc)
notes

8 120 0.0 Shell

A zero dependency shell script that makes it really simple to manage your text notes. (by nickjj)
Project mention: My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-19

I've been doing something similar for ~20 years at: https://github.com/nickjj/notes
```
    - Running `notes` will open this month's notes for YYYY_MM.txt
```
note-keeper

5 62 0.0 Shell

:notebook: A tiny bash tool for taking and organizing notes.
shell-velocity

3 29 7.3 Shell

A portable notational velocity for your shell written in POSIX shell.

Project mention: Looking for guidance on simplifying my note-taking setup into the terminal | /r/commandline | 2023-04-26

I really love the look of shell-velocity, it is almost exactly what I want. However, I again do not know how I would call it directly inside vim, nor does it have quite the same convenience of automatically syncing with a remote if I need to quickly use my notes across different machines.
NoteWhispers

2 22 4.1 Shell

Voice memos recorded from the microphone, transcribed offline to text and converted to Joplin notes

Project mention: Joplin – open-source note-taking and to-do application with sync | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-05
WorkOS

workos.com
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personal_notes

2 12 7.7 Shell

My personal study notes/TIL.
note

1 8 0.0 Shell

Manage your notes, todo, ... with this nifty script CLI/bash (by pforret)
notes

1 3 3.7 Shell

My notes for lots of things (by ksobrenat32)
motes

1 0 7.1 Shell

Manage and share notes written in Markdown (by thass0)

Project mention: Sharing and integrating markdown notes with the real world | /r/NoteTaking | 2023-10-20

Maybe someone else besides just me finds this useful : D https://github.com/d4ckard/motes

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). The latest post mention was on 2024-02-19.