Add this to your .profile,or .bashrc or whatever to create a note-taking utility for your shell. Notes are invoked by typing $> note observations.txt from any working directory. You will then find yourself editing a file called observations.txt in ~/Documents/notes/ Don't forget to change the username from 'christo' to something useful

gistfile1.txt

note() { /usr/bin/vim /Users/christo/Documents/notes/"$@".txt ; }