Getting Your Notes Done
I stumbled upon a great idea: store quick notes in a private mailbox. It's a very smart solution especially because the notes are searchable and available from anywhere. The concept is quite easy to implement therefore it's adjustable to various toolchains.
The origin author provides a command-line+mutt+GMail solution. I did a few modifications to accomplish a GMail free and 'offline-working' version. I replaced mutt by msmtpQ a wrapper for msmtp and GMail by a procmail filter. In addition I made the subject prefix optional and added a custom e-mail header to tag notes.
Add this shell script function to your .bashrc or .zshrc and adjust YOUR@EMAIL.COM
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function noteit() { # http://www.christoph-polcin.com/blog/getting-your-notes-done # based on http://pbrisbin.com/posts/notes local message subject="$*" mail="YOUR@EMAIL.COM" [[ -z "$subject" ]] && { echo 'no subject.'; return 1; } echo -e "^D to save, ^C to cancel\nNote:\n" message="$(cat)" [[ -z "$message" ]] && { echo 'no message.'; return 1; } echo "From: $mail\nTo: $mail\nSubject: $subject\nX-Tag: note\n\n$message" \ |/usr/local/bin/msmtpQ $mail &> /dev/null [[ $? -ne 0 ]] && { echo "failed."; return 1; } }
And now create a procmail or what-ever-you use e-mail filter to move incoming notes to a separate mailbox.
#procmail filter :0 * ^From:.*@MY-DOMAIN\.COM * (^X-Tag:.*note|^Subject:.*\[note\]) mail/mynotes