I have a bunch of text files in a particular directory that I use to record various ideas that come to me.
I generally name the files like this: iNNNN_keyword1_keyword2_keyword3.txt , so for example, i0324_toread_programming_PHP_MVC_OOP.txt So I've got this directory with all these files in them. The directory has an environment variable called $ideas . So if I type ls $ideas I get the file list and I don't have to retype the path (which is long). If I want to get the latest file I can type ls $ideas |tail -n1 If I want create a simple file I can use: echo "whatever my idea is" > $ideas/iNNN_keyword_keyword.txt I can also use ed or vim. Actually, I could write a bash script that would automatically calculate the next index number. If I want to find ideas relating to something I can type ls $ideas |grep whatever eg: ls $ideas |grep toread that would gives me a reading list. Actually this is a list of reading lists, I could write something a bit more extensive to using xargs to cat them all together then pipe the result to less to get a complete reading list. These little exercises can give you an opportunity to become comfortable with the linux console. A couple of commands things i use frequently are cal and concalc. I want to use dc instead of concalc but haven't bothered to learn dc yet. Another idea, install and configure conky. You can learn a fair bit by playing with all of conky's options. For example, I have a particular directory containing active projects (actually, the directory contains symlinks to directories containing active projects), and my conky configuration is set to automatically display a todo list of active projects based on the contents of that directory. When I finish a project I delete the symlink and it disappears from the todo list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAvq_=c_gntdws_92mu9mwk+m4umhhzzrxfooiurx0qq4ue...@mail.gmail.com
