tv2 0.2.2

A fast note-taking app for the UNIX terminal

Terminal Velocity 2

Terminal Velocity 2 is a fast note-taking app for the UNIX terminal, that focuses on letting you create or find a note as quickly and easily as possible, then uses your $EDITOR to open and edit the note. It is heavily inspired by the OS X app Notational Velocity. For screenshots and features, see the Terminal Velocity website.

Installation

pip - Python package manager

To install Terminal Velocity, run:

pip install tv2

Then to launch it just run:

tv2

To use a different notes directory, run:

tv2 path/to/your/notes/dir

To see all the command-line options, run:

terminal_velocity -h

To quit the app, press ctrl-c or ctrl-x.

To upgrade Terminal Velocity to the latest version, run:

pip install --upgrade tv2

To uninstall it, run:

pip uninstall tv2

From Source

Ensure python modules urwid, setuptools and chardet are installed. Python-dev also.

apt install python-setuptools python-chardet python-urwid python-dev

Clone the repository from:

https://github.com/makyo/tv2.git

Move into tv2 directory you just cloned and run the following:

sudo python setup.py install

Releasing to PyPi

To release a new version of Terminal Velocity 2:

1. Make sure you have setup your ~/.pypirc file for PyPi uploading
2. Increment the version number in the setup.py file, add an entry to the changelog, commit both changes to git and push them to github. For example, see aae87b.
3. Upload the new release to the tv2 package on pypi: run python setup.py sdist upload -r pypi.

For more information see https://packaging.python.org/.

To contribute code to Terminal Velocity, see CONTRIBUTING.