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 ive been working on a personal notes system which replaces some of Obsidian's functions just using posix shell, and some userland tools.

what ive got so far:

alt-n in the terminal opens a fuzzy finder for note titles.

cntl-r in finder switches to ripgrep to search note contents.

enter opens in neatvi.

while editing, meta-alt-r opens ripgrep search in dmenu, selection basename is piped to clipboard with [[double bracket]] enclosed links, which can be pasted in the editor, and followed with 'gf'.

i can search for note names, or note contents, and search for phrases in other notes while editing, and insert relevant links. just fzf, dmenu, ripgrep, and a couple of posix scripts are used.

https://cdn.satellite.earth/e00864f3dd69e2b214a692d68bdef480757cbc5cbe9b98cf77c0165ae907747f.png
https://cdn.satellite.earth/f7453c98ae2632ecff51f40e8ebee68c3458e42bcfa348763059ed4cb5cdbfc0.png
https://cdn.satellite.earth/0bc532502451fc44cf4f7ee7addd3f6f9f45cf00f727be66fa1ceafc6aaccc5c.png 
 ahem, what are you hiding here and when are you noting it so I can read it ...

A book like this needs to be no nonsense. No false promises, or pie-in- the-sky utopianism . We are, after all, talking about swimming against the cu Commitment
We need low noise, high signal. No filler.
Truth.
For this reason,, I've put off writing this. But it's time.

 
 im writing a book.
it may take some time 😆 
 tomorrow then? 
 late afternoon. 
second tuesday of next week.