GoNotes

Command line tool to manage and search your Kindle clippings in an easy way!

Table of Contents

• Usage
• Help
• Autocomplete
• Installation
• Development

Usage

Parse your clippings files from Kindle:

➜ gonotes parse /path/to/your/clippings.txt

Then you can list notes from a book. Press tab use autocomplete (check how to enable it):

➜ gonotes notes 8  # shows notes from book with ID 8

You can display notes from single book and search using grep:

➜ gonotes notes 3 | grep tourism
tourism is about helping people construct stories and collect memories.

Remember to use cowsay to share your favourite quotes!

➜ gonotes n 12 | grep "personal growth" | cowsay
 ______________________________________
/ Simply having enough money to spare  \
| converts the vicious cycle of stress |
| and poor decision making into a      |
\ virtuous cycle of personal growth.   /
 --------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

There's also possibility to get a random quote that will be no longer than specified number of words

➜ gonotes r -q -l 15 | cowsay -f bunny
 ________________________________________
/ Hate is just as injurious to the hater \
| as it is to the hated. - The           |
| Autobiography of Martin Luther King,   |
\ Jr. (Carson, Clayborne)                /
 ----------------------------------------
  \
   \   \
        \ /\
        ( )
      .( o ).

Help

  NAME:
     gonotes - manage your Kindle notes.

     For more information check https://github.com/turbaszek/gonotes

  USAGE:
     gonotes [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

  VERSION:
     v0.1

  COMMANDS:
     parse, p   Parses provided file and creates books and notes
     book, b    Utilities to manage books
     notes, n   List notes
     random, r  Shows a random note
     help, h    Shows a list of commands or help for one command

  GLOBAL OPTIONS:
     --help, -h     show help (default: false)
     --version, -v  print the version (default: false)

Autocomplete

To set up autocomplete including book hints run one of the following:

# bash
source <(gonotes completion bash)

# zsh
source <(gonotes completion zsh)

To persist the autocomplete behaviour add this selected option to your .bashrc or .zshrc.

Installation

Currently, you can install GoNotes in two ways:

• clone the repo and then go install ./cmd/gonotes - this will install actual master
• download the binary:

  curl -L https://github.com/turbaszek/gonotes/releases/download/v0.1/gonotes -o /usr/local/bin/gonotes && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gonotes
  

Development

Feel free to open issues and PRs. To build the project follow are usuall go steps. Consider using pre-commits for static checks and code formatting. On Mac this should do:

brew install pre-commit
pre-commit install