quicknotes is a notes application that makes taking notes... quick. You can edit your notes using your preferred text editor, and all notes are saved

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quicknotes is a notes application that makes taking notes... quick. You can edit your notes using your preferred text editor, and all notes are saved locally in plain text.

To write a new note, all you have to do is run quicknotes new <title>.... For example, to create a new note about the time machine I am building, I would run quicknotes new Flux Capacitor Design.

By default, this will launch the editor stored in $EDITOR, but this is configurable. All notes have a preamble, which must be preserved so that quicknotes can index your note, but after that, write what you want! There are no rules on formatting.

If you want to go back and revise your note, you can use quicknotes open, and search for your note. In general, the index will be automatically built when editing a note, but if for any reason you need to rebuild the index, you can run quicknotes index.

quicknotes also supports "daily" notes, to aid your journaling. To open today's daily note, run quicknotes daily. This will create a new note with today's date, or open one if one already exists. You can also open a daily note from a previous day by doing quicknotes daily <offset>, where offset is a "fuzzy" date. You can either enter an absolute date (e.g. 2015-10-21), or a relative date (e.g. yesterday, 2 days ago).

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