I love having a private place to keep all my notes somewhat organized. After trying tools such as evernote and always finding one reason or another to dislike them, I discovered that I could use gitlab wiki pages. Basically markdown pages linked together in which ever way I wish.

To help me quickly generate the markdown files and link them together, I created this script. Inspired by site generators like jekyll but with the desire to keep the generation and build time very short.

These are the terminal commands (run node create.js run info to see the same instructions)

 node create.js new folderName - create new notebook-type folder
 node create.js folderName "Post title" firstTag secondTag - to create an entry. The entry goes in ./folderName/posts/{firstTag} folder
 node create.js build - generates links on the folderName/home.md for all your entries
 npm run gitit - just a quick way to push to your wiki repo

First a notebook should be generated. I think of it as a sublog, or notebook.

Then the second command adds notes to the notebook. For example the following command

node create.js folderName "Post title" firstTag secondTag 

generates a markdown file at folderNameBlog/posts/firstTag/post-title.md

That line of code also creates a page for every tag you use. So with the above example two files are generated

folderNameBlog/tags/firstTag.md 
folderNameBlog/tags/secondTag.md

And, of course each file contains a link to the post folderNameBlog/posts/firstTag/post-title.md. Further more, if the tag already exists in the ./tags folder then just the corresponding post is added.

Finally, when the nodebook was generated, it got a home.md which is the homepage of the notebook. By running node create.js build that page is injected with all the created posts.

As for the gitit command, since this is just a personal diary and the comments for each commit aren't important, it simply adds, commits, and pushes the changes to your repo

All you need is node installed