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

python3 histd.py

Installation

Recommended method

sudo cp histd.py /usr/local/bin/histd

Risky way (without cloning the repository)

sudo curl -o /usr/local/bin/histd "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ordinary-dev/histd/master/histd.py"

To create a new note, you can simply type histd in the terminal.

Backup

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

cd ~/.local/share
tar -cJf histd.tar.xz histd

Merge all notes

This command concatenates all files and prefixes each with the creation date.

for f in ~/.local/share/histd/**/*.md; do echo $f | sed 's/^.*histd\//# /'; cat "${f}"; echo; done