Make your plain text knowledge base more useful.
Warning
Νοῦς is still in early stages of development. Whilst the available commands should work, their names might change without warning or your data might end up corrupted!
With a sufficiently recent version of Rust installed run cargo install --path=. from the repository root.
To enable shell completions add source <(COMPLETE=bash nous) to your .bashrc
or equivalent. See the documentation of the completion
library for
more details about supported shells.
Run nous help for a list of the available commands. To work with nodes within
a νοῦς realm, it will first have to be initialized (which, for now, comes down
to making a .nous folder at the root of the realm). You can initialize a realm
in the current working directory using nous init or nous init path/to/intended/root.
Once a realm is initialized, other commands (if enabled, with helpful tab
completion) can be applied on node names, no matter where they live within the
realm. In particular you can search for incoming and outgoing wikilinks
(i.e. links of the form [[other node]]), which are called backlinks and
forward links, respectively. For further detail look at the output of nous help.
Nous (from the Greek 'νοῦς') is a concept found in classical philosophy which refers to the part of the human mind necessary to understand what is true and real, making it (in the author's opinion) a fitting name for a knowledge management tool. If the philosophical details interest you, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy gives a good introduction to the various interpretations of this notion.