SourceTrait Note CLI

A very, very simple Markdown notes manager

This command-line tool manages note files in your preferred directory, organized under one of the following four categories:

• Today
• Idea
• Todo
• Plan

The Today category is sharded by year and month. The Plan category is either singular or topical. Trest of the categories are named with their topic.

When running the today subcommand, you can optionally carry over your daily list from the previous day.

Usage

For help, see srctrait-note --help.

srctrait-note <command>

• today Edits today's note

  • today from <date> Carries over notes from the previous date into today's

• yesterday Edits yesterday's note

• day Edits the given day's note

• idea <topic> Edits an idea note for that topic

• plan Edits your master plan

• plan <topic> Edits topical plan

• todo <topic> Edits a topical TODO list

• config Edits the command's config file. Configures the notes dir and editor command.

• pick <note type> Uses yazi to choose a note to edit

Installation

With Rust install, run:

cargo install srctrait-note-cli

The standalone command's default name is srctrait-note. It's recommended to make an alias to something like note for easy of use.

In Fish, this would be something like:

alias note "srctrait-note"
funcsave note

Repository

Contributors, please review SRCTRAIT.md.

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License (AGPL3)

SourceTrait Note CLI: Markdown notes manager
Copyright (C) 2025 Asmov LLC

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.