Zettelkasten with Zettel Cast Recording

💥DEPRECATED: Use keg/kn instead. I now use only the following for the same thing as the old command:

#!/bin/bash
KEG_CURRENT=zet keg "$@"

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The zet command is a multicall bash script for managing one or more Zettelkasten git repos with optional Zettel Cast live video recordings.

Synopsis

In place of zetid the word last can be used instead as well as any path to the README.md file or the “zet cast” video identifier (the id or URL, if it has one).

usage
help
cast
import
delete
open
commit
video
urlencode
isosec
dir
create
edit
titles
last
text
title
body
query
ids
before
for
after
id

Dependencies

The zet script requires Bash 4.0 (or above) and depends on the following commands not normally installed by default:

• yt
• pandoc
• curl
• jq
• auth

Environment

• EDITOR
• GITUSER
• HELP_BROWSER

Completion

Add the following to bashrc to enable completion (replacing zet with your multicall executable name):

complete -C zet zet

Note that you will need one such complete line for every multicall variation of this script:

ln -s zet log
complete -C log log

Filter Commands

True to the UNIX philosophy, most all commands can either take an argument or will read from standard input recursively calling the same command once for each line of input allowing commands to be called from within Ed/Vim sessions as well as from the command line in pipeline form.

Initial Setup

The zet command will create your public and private repository folders, however to link it to github you will need to use gh or github.com to setup the github repository. In your public and private folder run:

git init && gh repo create

Or you can use github.com to create the repositories.

Once setup make sure your upstream is set to your github repository for your commits to be pushed to github. The zet commands will not indicate an issue with your repository as all messages are piped to /dev/null. To set your upstream run:

git push -u <remote> <branch>

Usage

Commands

Command	Summary
usage	Display single line summary of all command usage
help	Display help information

usage

The usage command displays a summary of usage.

help

The help command prints help information. If no argument is passed displays general help information (main). Otherwise, the documentation for the specific argument keyword is displayed, which usually corresponds to a command name (but not necessarily). All documentation is written in CommonMark (Markdown) and will displayed as Web page if pandoc and $HELP_BROWSER are detected, otherwise, just the Markdown is sent to $PAGER (default: more).

Dependencies

Required:

• Bash 4+

Optional:

• pandoc - for rich help docs

Justification

Bash is the dominate shell scripting language and the official default Linux interactive shell, which reduces cognitive overhead; every command line is a line of code that could be put into script as is. Bash scripts are at the core of cloud, containers, and Kubernetes. Bash 4+ with its associative array support, powerful regular expressions, and multiple ways of feeding data to loops easily covers the needs previously requiring Python and Perl scripts. Bash scripts are also much more powerful, safer, flexible, and performant than POSIX shell or Zsh.

Caveats

• Use the official bash path: #!/usr/bin/bash
• Using #!/usr/bin/env bash introduces unnecessary risk
• Always set the acceptable PATH at beginning of script
• Always check script with shellcheck before releasing
• Always use bc for any floating point math

Legal

Copyright 2021 Rob Muhlestein rob@rwx.gg
Released under Apache-2.0 License
Please mention https://youtube.com/rwxrob