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G33KB00K3 - fun to read & fun to write -- 🤓 eXtreme eXtendable note taking system for nerds/geeks (including scientists!) docs: http://geekbook.rtfd.io = beautiful html generator of your markdown-based notes
https://github.com/mmagnus/geekbook

emacs emacs-powered geek labbook nerds note-taking notes

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Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/mmagnus/geekbook
Owner: mmagnus
License: gpl-3.0
Created: 2016-09-16T14:33:36.000Z (about 8 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2024-03-23T20:12:09.000Z (8 months ago)
Last Synced: 2024-05-15T13:05:59.911Z (6 months ago)
Topics: emacs, emacs-powered, geek, labbook, nerds, note-taking, notes
Language: Python
Homepage:
Size: 18.3 MB
Stars: 39
Watchers: 5
Forks: 8
Open Issues: 23
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Contributing: docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE

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README

        # geekbook3 - note taking system for nerds!

💥 Now in dark mode! 💥 

![](docs/imgs/darkmode.jpg)

Marcin Magnus (mmagnus) & Pietro Boccaletto (akaped)

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Motto: **Notes are like your code**.

(geekbook3 since finally Geekbook uses Python 3)

G33KB00K3 - fun to read & fun to write -- 🤓 eXtreme eXtendable note taking system for nerds (including scientists!) (= beautiful html generator of your markdown-based notes)  docs: http://geekbook.rtfd.io

**THE LATEST**

[Geekbook Bookify]( https://github.com/mmagnus/geekbook/tree/master/plugins/bookify) - a plugin to process your notes into e-books

**MOTIVATION**

I started using MoinMoin for my personal notes in 2008, but something was missing... I started then playing with simple notes in Markdown written in my Emacs. The next step was to write a system to convert these notes into HTML. The system was drafted in Gdańsk at the PTBI conference (2012) when I decided to write a tool to process a folder with notes written in Markdown. I wanted to use my CSS style and then more and more unique features that I found very useful for myself. I think, at the moment, the project converged pretty much to tools like static site generators http://jekyllrb.com, https://www.mkdocs.org, https://getpelican.com with some unique features developed by myself for myself ;-) (e.g., saving notes as a PDF files for easy sync with my Boox device, including reversing the colors of dark images, making it easier to read them on e-ink devices).

The system is a neat way how to combine **Emacs/Atom/Sublime/iA Writer editor + Markdown Syntax + Git + Html engine** (bootstrap/python) to get the best notes-talking experience ever. Highly customizable with plugins written in Python. 

What's the most important, under the hood it's just a set of Markdown files.. you can do with them whatever you want, e.g. you can Pandoc (http://pandoc.org/epub.html) them to epub (that's origin of "book" part of the name), or you can sync them to your iPhone to be edited with iAWriter (this is how I share my notes with my iPhone).

![](themes/default/qubCXZcWHl.gif)

Figure. From an (old) homepage to a note.

![](docs/imgs/56HcDqXllz.gif)

Figure. A new Homepage.

  * [Features](#features)

    * [Index](#index)

    * [Dashboard](#dashboard)

    * [Extensions](#extensions)

  * [EMACS\-powered](#emacs-powered)

    * [focus\-mode](#focus-mode)

    * [list notes in Emacs (sort by Date/Name)](#list-notes-in-emacs-sort-by-datename)

    * [magit\-based diff of your notes](#magit-based-diff-of-your-notes)

  * [On your OSX](#on-your-osx)

  * [On your phone](#on-your-phone)

  * [Install & Get Started!](#install)

  * [Food for thought](#food-for-thought)

Features | Geekbook | Word Office | Apple Notes

-------- | -------- | ----------- | -----------

**Edits with Emacs** | Oh, boy, yes! | Nope | Nope

**Outline (collapse to headers)** | With Emacs yes. Works great! | Nope | Nope

**Long notes - easier to browse** | Long notes with great speed and table of content | Very slow for long notes. Always problems with formatting long notes with images. | Very good for short notes.

**Syntax highlighting** | Oh, boy, yes! | Hmm.. nope | Hmm.. nope

**Write your own plugins in Python** | Oh, boy, yes! | Nope | Nope

**Export as a pdf** | Yes | Yes | Yes

**Edit with ...** | Any text editor (with Markdown support for better UX) | Word | Apple Notes (Closed)

**Flexible** | Super flexible. You can find your own why how to make your notes | Medium | Medium

**Search** | Super easy to search with built-in search or just grep your files | More difficult to search over a set of files. Slow! | OK

**Version control** | Yes, if you use Git etc | Kind of. Hard to use (compared to Git) | Nope

**Style customizable** | Yes, it's HTML. Do what ever you want | To some extend | Nope

**Edit on your phone** | Yes, use Byword | Not really | Yes, works very well!

**Open & Free** | YES | Nope, closed and pricey | Close, no extra charge if you have an Apple device

**Super easy to use** | Rather for geek/nerds/hackers | Easy but who cares ;-) | Easy but who cares ;-)

@todo Compare to Evernote.

Similar projects: it's kind of like Sphinx for your documentation, or Mkdocs (http://www.mkdocs.org/).

Freatures:

- Index html based

- Sync them with Dropbox/iCloud/github

- Read from console, grep them

- Edit with almost any text editor, I'm using Emacs!

- Keep images separately, edit them in any external tool or edit them in batch

- Customize html templates

- You can sync notes in your system with notes kept at virtual machines (mounted via sshfs) or drives

- Super light!

- Pandoc markdown files to anything you want!

- Use 3rd party editors, if you wish, on your computer or on your phone.

I recommend to use **Emacs** (or VIM or other super-powerful editor) to:

- run git on your notes in your editor,

- grep them in the editor,

- make bookmarks to parts of your notes,

- copy-paste from your notes to your programs you're writing,

- use Google Translate (https://github.com/atykhonov/google-translate)

- ispell,

- outline mode,

- focuse mode.

Sync with **Github** to have your notes (full-text searchable) with you all the time (in a private repository):

![index](docs/imgs/geekbookx.png)

Kinda similar projects:

- www.geeknote.me

# Features

## Index

![index](docs/imgs/index.png)

## Dashboard

![dashboard](docs/imgs/dashboard.png)

## Extensions

Geekbook includes also many plugins that build on top of Markdow to give even more fun.

See for more  and 

Export one page as a Git repository:

    python page.py /Users/magnus/Desktop/geekbook-export geekbook-export.md --add-toc --push

# Emacs powered

## Focus on your notes

![](docs/imgs/emacs_focus_mode.png)

## List your notes in Emacs (sort by Date/Name)

![](docs/imgs/emacs_list.png)

## magit-based diff of your notes

![](docs/imgs/emacs_git.png)

[https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Magit](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Magit)

# Python-markdown powered

## Footnotes

- https://python-markdown.github.io/extensions/footnotes/

# On your OSX

Spotlight your notes:

![](docs/imgs/osx_file.png)

# On your phone

On your phone: (in this case using Dropbox & Byword on my iPhone).

![](docs/imgs/notes_at_phone.png)

Or Draft (http://lifehacker.com/draft-is-a-clean-note-taking-app-with-markdown-support-844836670) for Android (not tested by me).

![](docs/imgs/iphone_search_byword.png)

Search on your Iphone to get to the note.

Update: Now I'm using iA Writer for iPhone (https://itunes.apple.com/pl/app/ia-writer/id775737590?l=pl&mt=12). It has sync with iCloud (works with sync also images (!)) and Dropbox. Geekbook has a nice plugin to be able to work with iA Writer seamlessly. 

![](docs/imgs/ia_writer_iphone.PNG)

If you insert an image on your phone, the syntax for it will be iA Writer-like. However if Geekbook detects this syntax it converts it to markdown syntax for images (which works as well in iA Writer). 

![](docs/imgs/screen800x500-0.jpeg)

Moreover, you can use in Geekbook also syntax `/` to join chapters into books. 

![](docs/imgs/screen800x500-1.jpeg)

There is also a nice app for Mac (https://ia.net/writer/).

# Install

See http://geekbook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

# Food for thought

 

 http://geekbook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/thoughts.html

 

# Markdown Editors

PyCharm - Python IDE and Markdown editor https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

Linux:

- http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/11/notes-up-markdown-editor-for-linux 

- https://remarkableapp.github.io/

macOS:

- Bear http://www.bear-writer.com/

- iA Writer https://ia.net/writer/

- Typora https://typora.io

iOS:

- https://ia.net/writer/

# Quickref

	\ii get a file from ~/Desktop

	\ix get a file from ~/Downloads

	\dx get a file from ~/Dropbox

	\ip get a file from selected in Apple Photos

	\ic get clipboard

 

    #dark to make a figure dark (inverse colors)

	'[notes]', '\pagebreak'