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Discussion on: Simple note taking from the command line

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Konstantin Stadler

And here a version with timestamps (setup for vimwiki):

note() {
  if [ ! -z "$1" ]; then
    echo $(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M%S") $@  >> $HOME/notes/TempNotes.wiki
  else
    echo $(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M%S") "$(cat)"  >> $HOME/notes/TempNotes.wiki
  fi
}
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Miere Teixeira

Awesome, @konstantin Stadler!

Believe me or not, I was about to make the same suggestion you did!
\o

@Ricardo Molina,
Pretty useful idea. Thanks a lot!