jottem is a tool used to keep track of terminal sessions by creating temporary notes corresponding to a terminal specific session for those who either have a lot of thoughts running through their mind at any given time or just a lot of terminals/tmux sessions open
Simply put the jot
script on your path (such as moving to /usr/bin
) and run
$ jot
anytime to jot down some notes about your current work. It will prompt you accordingly
If this is a terminal session that has never had any notes taken for it (the numerical result of running the command tty
) then new notes will be created in /tmp
with the name jottem_<session number>.txt
.
If this is either an existing session or a session with a repeat number (which is bound to happen) jottem will give you three options:
- edit the current notes (just append to what already exists)
- archive the notes by moving them to
~./jottem_archive
and renaming the notes to have the date appended to the filename - delete the notes and start fresh like crisp autumn air
Either simply run
$ jot
or, if you'd like to view notes for an existing session run
$ jot --view
account for more possibilities such as:
- you create multiple terminal sessions in one day and want to archive multiple notes (right now it overwrites the archived notes)
- add help message
- ?