Git-powered idea logging

Description

• Allows you to log your ideas with a single command idea "Your idea here".
• These ideas are timestamped and written to an idea log, which is then commited, and pushed to a Git repo (with the commit message set to your idea).
• Your idea log can be viewed with the matching ideas command (which also does a git pull before displaying your ideas).

Example Usage

idea command

[sam@samantha] λ idea "This repository"
Idea added

ideas command

[sam@samantha] λ ideas
===============
= My Idea Log =
===============
Mon May 27 08:22:17 NZST 2019 
This repository

Mon May 27 08:27:31 NZST 2019 
Oh look another cool idea

Setup & Code

1. As this code uses Git, you’ll want to initialize a Git repository somewhere (which will do nothing but store your idea-log file). Personally I used ~/Documents/ideas.

    cd ~/Documents/ideas && touch idea-log && git init
    # Now set your repo upstream tracking
   

2. Now simply save the script file below somewhere, and source it in your .bashrc

    function idea() {
        cd ~/Documents/ideas # cd to idea-log repo directory
        echo -e $(date) "\n$1\n" >> idea-log # Timestamp + add idea to the idea-log file
        git commit -am "$1" --quiet # Silently commit (commit msg=idea) the change
        git push --quiet # Silently push the idea
        cd - > /dev/null # Silently cd back to the previous working directory
        echo -e "Idea added"
    }
   
    function ideas() {
        cd ~/Documents/ideas # cd to idea-log repo directory
        git pull --quiet # Pull any new ideas that have been added
        cat idea-log # Read the idea log
        cd - > /dev/null # Silently cd back to the previous working directory
    }