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+Note-taking with Vim
+====================
+:author: Aaron Ball
+:email: nullspoon@iohq.net
+
+
+== {doctitle}
+
+Two vim posts in one day!
+
+My task list at work has recently become so large (it's probably well over a
+year's worth of work now) that I now need to track my tasks somewhere other
+than in my head (documentation is always better than tribal knowledge anyways).
+I realy don't like task tracking becuase most of the applications out there are
+just so heavy for what note-taking actually is. I use vim almost all day, every
+day though, so why not use that (plus it's command line!)?
+
+I spent about thirty minutes writing this up today. It's inspired a bit by the
+LifeHacker article,
+http://lifehacker.com/5592047/turn-your-command-line-into-a-fast-and-simple-note+taking-tool[Turn
+Your Command Line into a Fast and Simple Note Taking Tool] (thanks
+http://mottr.am/[Jack Mottram]).
+
+This will automagically give all of your notes a .wiki extension, telling vim
+to use the mediawiki text syntax highlighter (I use MediaWiki a lot to so I
+figured I'd use that syntax for markup). This can be found
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_editor_support#Vim[here]. If you
+want to use something else like markdown, just change the $noteExt variable at
+the top to the extension associated with the highlighter you want.
+
+This addition will give you six new commands.
+
+* +**note** [NoteName]+: Opens a note for editing or creates
+a new note. If no note is specified, opens the most recent note.
+* +**mknote** NoteName "Note to append"+: Appends text to the
+requested note.
+* +**catnote** [NoteName]+: Prints the contents of the
+specified note.
+* +**lsnotes**+: Lists all notes by date modified
+* +**findnote** SearchTerm+: Searches all notes for the
+search term (case insensitive) and prints the results along with note
+title and line number on which the term was found.
+* +**mvnote** OldName NewName+: Renames a note
+* +**rmnote** NoteName+: Deletes the specified note.
+
+Add the following to your .bash_profile (or .profile if you're a ksh user)
+
+----
+export base=~/Documents/Notes
+export noteExt=wiki
+# This would be used for markdown
+# export noteExt=md
+note() {
+  if [ ! -d $base ]; then
+    mkdir -p $base
+  fi
+  # If note not specified, open most recent
+  if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
+    vim $(ls -t $(find $base/ -type f) | head -n 1)
+  else
+    vim $base/$1.$noteExt
+  fi
+}
+ 
+mknote() {
+  echo $2 >> $base/$1.$noteExt
+}
+ 
+catnote() {
+  # If note not specified, cat most recent
+  if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
+    cat $(ls -t $(find $base/ -type f) | head -n 1)
+  else
+    cat $base/$1.$noteExt
+  fi
+}
+ 
+lsnotes() {
+  #ls -1 $base/ | sed "s/\(.*\).$noteExt/* \1/"
+  echo 
+  echo -e "Last Modified\tName"
+  ls -lt $base/ | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 6,7,8,9 | sed  "s/^\(\w\+\) \(\w\w\) \(\w\w:\w\w\) \(.*\).wiki/\1 \2 \3\t\4/"
+  echo
+}
+ 
+findnote() {
+  if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then
+    contents="Note:Line:Text\n\n"
+    contents=$contents$(find $base/ -type f | xargs grep -n -i "$1" | sed "s/.*\/\(.*\)\.$noteExt:\([0-9]\+\):\(.*\)/\1:\2:\3/")
+    echo -e "$contents" | column -s ":" -t
+  else
+    echo "Please specify a search term."
+  fi
+}
+ 
+mvnote() {
+  mv $base/$1.$noteExt ~/Documents/Notes/$2.$noteExt
+}
+ 
+rmnote() {
+  if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then
+    rm $base/$1.$noteExt
+  else
+    echo "Please specify a note."
+  fi
+}
+----
+
+
+Category:Linux
+Category:Vim
+Category:Productivity
+
+
+// vim: set syntax=asciidoc: