YANTRCA - Yet Another Note Taking Ruby Console App

A console app to save your notes.

Motivation

I wanted to see how console programs like nano, htop work. So, I tried to build a really simple application that will be only run from a terminal shell and it’s user interface is within the console.

Demo

Technology

As this is a simple console app, there is not many external packages or services used here. I only used the Ruby language and it’s curses package. That package is used to create the user interface and catch user input from terminal.

How to run

• Clone this repository
• Change working directory to cloned repository’s directory
• Run the following command -

ruby program.rb

After starting the app, Ctrl-A can be used to add a new note and Ctrl-C to close the app. All available actions on a screen are shown at the bottom of the screen.

ToDo

• Terminal window resize support
• Scrolling

Helpful Resources

To build an app like this, the below resources were very helpful -

• Ruby Curses Tutorial
• NCurses Programming HOWTO
• NCurses Manual
• Ruby Curses Documentation
• Ruby Curses Examples

License

This work is under the MIT License.