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Table of Contents
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1. Stitch - Note Composer
.. 1. FEATURES
.. 2. SCREENSHOTS
.. 3. CREDIT
.. 4. USAGE
.. 5. INSTALLATION
.. 6. DEVELOPMENT & BUILDING
.. 7. ROADMAP
2. COMMUNITY & CONTRIBUTING
3. KNOWN ISSUES
4. AUTHOR
1 Stitch - Note Managing for Unorganized Minimalists
====================================================
"...Differing from Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not
think of time as absolute and uniform. He believed in an infinite
series of times, in a dizzily growing, ever spreading network of
diverging, converging and parallel times. This web of time - the
strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore
each other through the centuries - embraces every possibility. We
do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in
others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist."
- Garden of Forking Paths, Borges
Stitch is a minimal grep-based CLI note-managing system targeting those that
want to easily capture notes and not spend time organizing them. Capture
your notes with tags and use stitch to compose the notes together.
Build your own knowledge base, journal, todo manager and more.
Stitch aims to be unopinionated; use whatever editor and file format you
want. The only requirement is that each file contains only one heading.
While Stitch is a note-manager; it does not come with functionality for
capturing notes to allow you to set it up in your preferred way. That said,
the manpages comes with a minimal example to get you started.
1.1 FEATURES
~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Write your thoughs first, organize later and read in multiple
different ways
- Comes with four views: full, headlines, todo, done
- Work with any file format, markdown, ruby markup, org etc.
- Run CLI commands on files (sed, grep etc.) with the command mode
- Write notes in any editor: vim, kakoune... or even ed!
- Available as a single static binary
- No need for any DB, just files
- Unix-y & fast
1.2 SCREENSHOTS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Notes Overview + Search
https://blobs.mccd.space/stitch/notes-view.png
- TODO View
https://blobs.mccd.space/stitch/todo-view.png
- Done View (+ Example of a command)
https://blobs.mccd.space/stitch/done-view-commands.png
- Full-Notes View
https://blobs.mccd.space/stitch/full-notes-view.png
1.3 CREDIT
~~~~~~~~~~
Stitch is based on the note composing system Howm for Emacs.
1.4 USAGE
~~~~~~~~~
Run `stitch --help' or `man stitch' to get started
1.5 INSTALLATION
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You can find all static releases tagged under
https://git.mccd.space/pub/stitch/refs/
Download the binary, chmod +x the binary and put in PATH.
Obs, the download link next to the tag is for the snapshot, you will have
to open the link of the tag to find the download to the binary.
At minimum, you will need to set the environment variable
STITCH_DIRECTORY, which should be an absolute path to where you
want to store your notes, for stitch to work.
1.6 DEVELOPMENT & BUILDING
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To set up the project for local development, easiest way is to
just install Nix, direnv and enable nix flakes. Then to compile:
dune build
Optimized build with
dune build --profile release
And to run
dune exec -- stitch
To generate man pages, run
dune exec -- stitch --help=groff
You can find the generated binary under
_build/default/bin/main.exe. Ignore the .exe, it's not a windows
binary.
When the system is built with Nix, it will be dynamically linked.
To build a static release, There is a Dockerfile included that
compiles it with musl, use it with podman:
podman pull docker.io/alpine:edge
podman build . -t stitch:latest
mkdir release
podman run -v ./release:/tmp/build/_build:U stitch:latest
Binary will be found in ./release/install/default/bin/stitch and
manpages in ./release/install/default/man/man1/stitch.1
1.7 ROADMAP
~~~~~~~~~~~
- Support sort
- Support tagging commands
- Support command piping and hotkeys
- Line wrapping
- Support URL shortening.
- Better result narrowing
2 COMMUNITY & CONTRIBUTING
==========================
Patches, discussions, bug reports etc. can be sent to
~marcc/stitch-general@lists.sr.ht.
Feel free to share your setup, tips, and tricks etc.
Archives can be found at
https://lists.sr.ht/~marcc/stitch-general
Never used git with email? You can learn how-to here:
https://git-send-email.io/
3 KNOWN ISSUES
==============
- ugrep doesn't correctly handle ordering, meaning that if you sort by
modified date, it doesn't behave correctly. I've waited with
implementing it until I've resolved that issue
- File names can not contain :[0-9]:, since it's used to determine
where the file starts and ends. One solution is to force one
uniform file name that we can regexp (and also tweak). I am not sure
yet what's best.
4 AUTHOR
========
Marc Coquand (<https://mccd.space>)
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