Was inspired by this, threw together this hack for vim users.

  #! /usr/bin/env bash
  cd ~/share # or wherever
  echo >> notes.txt
  date >> notes.txt
  if [[ $# -ne 0 ]]; then
    echo $@ >> notes.txt
  fi
  vim "+normal Go" +startinsert notes.txt

Enough to see if this will work for me.

I also aliased this to something short so I can quickly view notes starting at the bottom: vim "+normal G" ~/share/notes.txt