How I spent this day

A simple but useful personal diary application.

The sole purpose of this application is to quickly create a file and open it in a text editor so that I can take a note before I lose my desire. Notes can be found in the ~/.local/share/histd directory.

tree ~/.local/share/histd
# /home/user/.local/share/histd
# └── 2022
#     └── 08
#         ├── 18.md
#         └── 19.md

Usage

Mark this script as executable:

chmod +x histd.sh

Now you can create your first note:

./histd.sh

This command can be run as many times as you want, it will open the same file until the day is over.

You can open the last note with the command:

./histd.sh last

Editor configuration

When opening a text editor, the program checks the value of the EDITOR environment variable.

If you want to use a different editor, edit the ~/.bashrc file (if you are using bash):

export EDITOR=nano

Don't forget to start a new session or execute the following command:

source ~/.bashrc

Backup

To create an archive of all notes, run the following command:

./histd.sh backup

Required programs: tar, xz.

Merge all notes

This command concatenates all files and prefixes each with the filename.

./histd.sh merge

List all notes

./histd.sh list
# /home/user/.local/share/histd
# └── 2022
#     └── 08
#         ├── 18.md
#         └── 19.md

Required programs: tree.