Taking Quick Notes with the Command Line
When I need to make a quick note I often reach for textedit or the notes app on a mac. In trying to become more keyboard savvy, I wanted to learn a solution with the terminal to take notes. Fortunately, there is an inbuilt editor called nano that makes it easy.
The nano editor is a text user interface (TUI). You can’t use the mouse to point and click. Instead, you have to use keyboard commands. It is quite simple.
- open terminal on mac
- type nano and press enter
- start typing cmd + o to save
- give it a file name
- if you want to save to a particular folder press cmd + t and browse and select a folder.
- if you want to save by typing (without browsing) your folder path, you can use absolute or relative paths.
- to exit cmd + x
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