A bookmarks and snippets manager, stores bookmarks as YAML files and nippets as plain text, utilizes "Ag silver searcher" fast search to search your files when you need to open or copy a snippet, that makes its searching capabilities so enourmouse as it's inherited from AG.
Noty is smart, so it react depending on your input, so provide URL and it'll create a bookmark, provide some text and it will search for it in all bookmarks and snippets, if it didn't find any files it will prompt you to create a snippet.
Some common usages could be, bookmarking URL, save snippet of text you liked, save some canned responses and quickly copy it when needed.
$ gem install noty- ag : silver searcher https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
- xsel : could be found on most distros official repositories
- xdg-open : should be installed with most opendesktop compatible desktop environments
by default Noty saves your files in ~/.notes if you want to change that path, define an Environment variable in your shell init file .bashrc or .zshrc
export NOTES_PATH=/path/to/your/notes/dirSnippets and bookmarks manager.
Usage:
noty inputsInput types:
- url: e.g "http://www.example.com", add URL as a bookmark file
- keyword: search bookmarks and perform action on it, a single word of multiple words or regex, it is passed to "ag silver searcher"
- snippet text: any multiword text, it will search first if no files contain this text you'll be asked if you want to create a snippet for it
Add a bookmark
noty https://www.youtube.comSearch for bookmark
noty youtubeAdd a snippet text
noty this is a long text that I need to save in my stashSearch for a snippet (same as searching for bookmarks)
noty needBug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/blazeeboy/noty.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.