Jot down notes in Markdown. Inspired by sts10/jot.

Requires Bash >= 4 (for globstar).

Add the jot script to your $PATH or create a function similar to:

jot() { 
  /path/to/jot "${@}" 
}

jot defaults to writing to $HOME/Notes. You can customize this by setting $JOT_DIR to something else (e.g. export JOT_DIR="$HOME/Dropbox/Notes").

You'll also want to make sure $EDITOR is set to your preferred editor (e.g. export EDITOR='vim').

Run jot <name> to start writing. You can list notes with jot --list and show the usage info with jot --help:

jot [<arguments>]

Options:
  -h --help  Show this.
  -l --list  List notes.
  <name>     Create a note named <name>.md.
             If no <name>, the default is YYYY/MM/DD.md.
             You can also use slashes e.g. foo/bar to create foo/bar.md.

• jt - Creates timestamped notes (simplified version of jot)
• jrnl - Frictionless journaling from the CLI

MIT © Paul Esch-Laurent.