xwmx

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by xwmx 6y ago
Portability, philosophy, style. I find that designing within constraints can lead to interesting solutions, and this project has focused on embracing and leveraging the command line interface itself.
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by xwmx 6y ago
FWIW, the core idea in `nb` is that it grew out of exactly that toolset and philosophy and develops it into a single, streamlined interface with a bunch of conveniences and features. It embraces that model and is intended to support it.
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by xwmx 6y ago
Indeed, it is, and you can do exactly that.
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by xwmx 6y ago
Cool, your use case is exactly one I hope it works for. I find that the notebooks are a really good way to organize by topic or project, and should work really well for classes, too. You can even archive a project or class notebook when it
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by xwmx 6y ago
Very cool. `pass` is awesome and I didn't realize it had the `pass edit` feature. I have written scripts that use the 1Password and Keychain command line tools, and I definitely want `nb` to use all three of these, maybe via a plugin.
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by xwmx 6y ago
Yeah, it's a little unusual. No big story. I just did an early version and then didn't update it for a long time, then got hooked on working on it again over the past few months. I don't know what to say about the number of c
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by xwmx 6y ago
That particular function, `nb show`, is a big `if` statement checking the file type and environment for available tools. I'm more than happy for suggestions and / or pull requests for optimizing that. Note that Bash is a weird lan
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by xwmx 6y ago
Thanks! That looks really interesting and very nicely designed (both your CLI and the web app). It should be pretty easy to create a bookmark import plugin for `nb`, so that's likely to happen.
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