hsh: an all-in-one life-management tool#

hsh is a tool that tries to bring note taking, bookmarking, and todo management to a single place. While the initial focus is on the CLI, and I care very much about ensuring that hsh always has an outstanding command line, I explicitly want to make sure that hsh also has a good web front-end.

Design and Inspiration#

hsh owes a great debt to nb, and started off fully compatible with it. In fact, until recently, if you pointed hsh and nb to the same notebook, they could operate on it in the same way. And like nb, hsh believes completely in the primacy of plain text.

That said, hsh is heading in a different direction:

• There isn't anything like nb's indices/numeric IDs
• While nb relies on a rich collection of command-line tools to work, my goal with hsh is for it to be fully self-contained. (That said, it currently relies on ripgrep, and will continue to do so until I implement caching in SQLite.)
• While hsh, like nb, currently relies on Git for a lot of its history and metadata, and while I plan for hsh to continue optionally supporting that flow, my intention is for hsh to track much of that metadata internally and directly.

Current Status#

Note taking and a loose concept of todos are now present. In particular, the following functionality exists:

• Cloning notebooks
• Adding and removing notes
• Searching (requires ripgrep)
• Using Git to sync and manage the notebooks
• Searching todos and marking them complete or incomplete
• Bookmarking, including storing a Markdown format of the web page