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I think a quick:

  echo "you can write dev tools as shell functions" >>.notes

Would be pretty close to the same thing?

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I use a 20 line batch file saved as "jot.cmd" which does this roughly, it appends one liners to a particular note-log-file and it prepends the date if it is the first note of the day so I have a chronology. Also it cats the note file if sent an empty entry.

It is just a small part of my note keeping system, but I have often found it really convienient to be able to jot "asides" in the terminal like this.

If if you go with that, don't ever forget the second '>'! I know I have :)

I've got `set -o noclobber` in my .bashrc, so this doesn't bite me:

  /tmp $ echo foo > test
  /tmp $ echo bar > test
  -bash: test: cannot overwrite existing file

echo "don't ever forget the second >" >>.notes

You'll remember it better if you do:

echo "don't ever forget the second >" > .notes

(Don't Do it...)

>Would be pretty close to the same thing?

And one day you forget the second > and boom. There go your notes. Or at least the notes before the last backup.

Ok,

    function dnote () {
        echo "$1" >> ~/.notes
    }

You're right. That's pretty close. For a while, I actually did

    vim ~/dev/.note

and navigated to an an appropriate section whenever I wanted to write down something new I learned.

Well, there seem to be a few additional features:

1. being able to organize notes by "books" 2. being able to use it cross-platform (since both `echo` and `>>` don't exist in powershell)

I also like the emailing feature, but yeah, you could automate that with a chronjob.

Is not that not most applications though? It would be possible to do it yourself, but the application simplifies that process. Does not need to do more than so.

A famous (HN) example would be the first thread for Dropbox. I think people said "you could do this rsync".

You can have more than one file for books. And you can run bash in windows now.

This even uses immutable data structures. Thank you for making this!

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