zet note

Write new notes in a format preferred by the default_filetype option. Normally zet note opens editor, but it's also possible to add new notes by piping them into zet note --stdin. Notes can be put into templates, which is especially useful for notes piped into zet note.

By default zet note will create a new file. zet note tries to detect note title and name new file accordingly. This happens whenever passed selector (including the default one) points to a directory. Alternatively you can provide a selector with note's destination. If it exists, zet note will append to that file.

You can change the default editor by passing it to --editor switch. It accepts a format string with {} placeholder, which will be replaced with a file path to the temporary note file.

Normally zet note is interactive command which relies on editor being displayed to the user. It means that it is hard to redirect standard output to capture created note's path. That's why zet note provides --and-then switch which executes a command after successful note creation. This command is executed via a shell (sh -c) and it accepts a single placeholder {}, which will be substituted with note's path.

Templates

Templates are ordinary files and can be stored inside a notebook. They're chosen with -t switch which accepts a selector. Template files may contain the following placeholders, which will be automatically substituted when creating the note:

• {dt} - current date/time
• {host} - hostame of the current system, as reported my hostname program
• {user} - name of the current user
• {input} - note piped into zet note --stdin

Examples

$ zet note

$ zet note 0:quicknotes.md

$ echo "Hello" | zet note --stdin -t 0:note-template.md

$ zet note --editor='my-editor {}'

$ zet note --and-then 'rsync -av "{}" ssh://example.com/'