Note taking

notes.sh

#!/bin/sh
# A note simple note taking script, in Markdown format.
# Needs st and dmenu.

editnote() {
        st "-c" 'Notes' "-i" "-e" "$EDITOR" "$1"
}

get_file() {
        choice=$(printf \
                "new note\n%s" "$(find "$NOTES_DIRECTORY" -type f)"\
                | dmenu -p "What note ?")

        case "$choice" in
        "new note")
                new_file=$(find "$NOTES_DIRECTORY" -type d \
                | dmenu -p "file name ?")
                echo "$new_file".md
                ;;
        *)
                echo "$choice"
                ;;
        esac
}

NOTES_DIRECTORY="${NOTES_DIRECTORY:-$HOME/.local/notes/}"
[ -d "$NOTES_DIRECTORY" ] || mkdir -p "$NOTES_DIRECTORY"

file=$(get_file)
[ -n "$file" ] && editnote "$file"

TODO: use XDG vars and make it menu/term agnostic