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That looks neat, cheers dankco! I think there is a lot of room for these lightweight text-first systems.

I use a simple homebrewed system for my notes too, https://github.com/d5ve/noop which is just a search/edit loop, where you look for files and add/edit them.

https://github.com/d5ve/noop started out in golang too, but I ended up shelling out for so much stuff anyway, that I rewrote it in bash.

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Thanks, d5ve! I will check out your REPL approach, that sounds interesting.

Fortunately, for textnote I only have to shell out once to open the file. I will try hard to keep it that way, otherwise I agree with you and others that bash might be the more appropriate tool. Then again, there is functionality included that would be much more difficult to accomplish in bash (templating, archiving, configuration).

Thanks again for your comments and feedback!

Pure bash is indeed a good choice for this kind of application. I developed something similar, with some more functionality (and definitely more LoC :-) )

https://github.com/pforret/note

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