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iCloud Terminal Notepad

by gothep on 1/21/15, 2:29 PM with 19 comments

  • by pherocity_ on 1/21/15, 3:30 PM

    I use todo.txt for this. Works well across my devices. Besides, it's done by Gina Trappani (of ex-lifehacker) so supporting her is good too.

  • by manicdee on 1/28/15, 5:33 AM

    Day One has similar functionality built in, "dayone", with an Alfred workflow. Day One supports Markdown and hash tags, for what it's worth.

    The iA Writer method in this article feels a little fragile to me since it relies on that path. I guess it isn't likely to change in a hurry though.

  • by unfamiliar on 1/21/15, 3:56 PM

    I have something very similar set up.

    I have a terminal command called "log" which takes a string as an argument. It basically takes this string and writes it into my log file, prepended by the current date and time. This log file is in my dropbox folder. Typing "log" with no arguments will open up the log file in my editor.

    I have this set up with an Alfred workflow which works exactly the same way. I find it very useful for keeping track of what I am working on, what problems I was meant to be tackling, quick calculations I would like to keep a record of, etc

    EDIT: reading the article more thoroughly, my solution is basically identical.

  • by joshstrange on 1/21/15, 3:11 PM

    This is a pretty neat hack! Unfortunately it won't work with my setup of NVAlt [0] (OS X) and Simplenote [1] (iOS). I've got NVAlt hotkey'd so I can bring it up anywhere and use it as a scratch pad all the time that I know will be synced to my phone immediately, the problem being it doesn't use iCloud but rather simplenote's syncing solution, I'd wager to bet that I could do something similar that edits NVAlt's local storage and see if it's auto-synced as well (I bet it is).

  • by joshstrange on 1/21/15, 3:07 PM

    Your link to Ajour at the end of the article is broken. Link should be to: https://github.com/gopatrik/ajour as your link to to your main github page and is missing the "http://" and so it's getting appended on the end of your post URL.

  • by tnorthcutt on 1/21/15, 7:02 PM

    Great idea. I use iA Writer & nvAlt in conjunction with Dropbox for syncing, but this will work in that scenario as well.

    I also set up /usr/local/bin/notes, with the following: # !/bin/bash cat “path to your file”

    That way, you can also quickly read all your notes from that file on the command line

  • by basdp on 1/21/15, 3:07 PM

    Is this also possible for the regular notes app on iOS/OS X? It does sync with iCloud but I am not able to check if it's available in iCloud Drive.

  • by micah_chatt on 1/21/15, 3:39 PM

    Can someone make a Vim plugin command for this?

  • by teabee89 on 1/21/15, 5:35 PM

    "Voilà" is the correct spelling :)

  • by analogmind on 1/21/15, 3:27 PM

    This is lame. The title should also mention that you need to buy the app.