Hi, 

I've been using a small addition to wmiirc to have a small system to take 
notes. Maybe some people here can be interested to use or extend it. 

Basically, this adds two shortcuts : alt-n to take start a new note (here with 
vim running in a term), alt-shift-n to open an old note using the menu. New 
note names will end with the current tag, looking 
like "2006-05-06-12:30:21_tag" 

     $MODKEY-n)
     FILE=$(date +%F-%H:%M:%S)_$(wmiir read /view/name)
     x-terminal-emulator -title $FILE -e vim ~/data/Texte/Notes/$FILE &;;

     $MODKEY-Shift-n)
     FILE=$(ls ~/data/Texte/Notes/ | wmiimenu) && 
     x-terminal-emulator -title $FILE -e vim ~/data/Texte/Notes/$FILE &;; 

I'm thinking of many other possibilities along the same lines: opening IRC 
channels associated with a tag, having specific editors associated with tags, 
opening a mail folder associated to a tag with mutt, etc. 

Even if the idea is simple, I believe it could be interesting to explore  
variations. I'm thinking in particular of using the fact that a client can 
have many tags to control it somehow. An example, maybe very dumb: tag a 
client like xine with "stop" to stop playback... This would be an example 
separating the concept of tag from the concept of view. 

-- 
Yannick Delbecque

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