Show HN: Stash, an evernote for command line

by nyddle • 12 years ago

70 46 12 years ago

source99• 12 years ago

This seems pretty cool. Not sure if I will remember to use it but might work better than a txt file I keep handy. Though for my most common annoyingly long commands I normally create an alias.

Spittie• 12 years ago

Indeed. I usually rely on ZSH + the zsh-history-substring-plugin, on Bash + ^r or my .bashrc/.zshrc, but this looks like a better solution.

The synching sound sweet, but I wonder if the data get encrypted. It's opensource so I can just look myself, but I think it's something that should be clear on the homepage.

nyddle14• 12 years ago

Right now it is not. We'll add encryption as soon as possible.

bulldog4• 12 years ago

Looks nice to keep things like urls and some todo lists closer! Will check it!

pm• 12 years ago

s/coud/cloud, presumably.

nyddle14• 12 years ago

Sure, fixed.

techsupporter2• 12 years ago

Is there something that I can run locally for the data storage yet still hit from multiple computers? I've considered writing a CLI interface to the Etherpad API for just this reason. A lot of what I do depends on code/script snips but I can't store my employer's stuff in someone else's system.

nyddle14• 12 years ago

You mean like an internally hosted version of trystash.com?

eudoxus2• 12 years ago

I for one would very much appreciate a self hosted version.

techsupporter2• 12 years ago

Yep, that's exactly what I'd like.

Jonovono• 12 years ago

I just replaced Evernote with Justnotes. It's like nValt but I think with more features (tags, etc). Mapped to a nice keyboard shortcut and it's really fast to access old notes / make new ones. :)

CyberShadow2• 12 years ago

Can I run my own server? Is the server part open-source too, or just the client?

nyddle14• 12 years ago

Not yet, just the client.

cshimmin• 12 years ago

The server is called "redis"

CyberShadow2• 12 years ago

Thanks, but no thanks.

I would suggest adding a privacy policy to your website.

eudoxus2• 12 years ago

Is there a reason the server isnt open source? Do you have some business model in mind, or just havent got around to it.

err4nt• 12 years ago

Brilliant! Are there any other tools from the command line that I can use from my web server to make my life easier like this?

michaelmior• 12 years ago

Seems like you could emulate this easily with Dropbox and a couple shell aliases.

emdowling• 12 years ago

Would love something like this for 1Password. Being able to quickly grab credentials from command line would be great when logging in to boxes not set up for key-based login.

jareds• 12 years ago

Have you considered using kpcli and Keepass files to store server info for machines not set up with key based login? I use it on OSX with my keepass database and it works pretty well. See http://kpcli.sourceforge.net/

nyddle14• 12 years ago

Thank you, will check this out.

shitlord• 12 years ago

Cool as fuck! Will definitely use.

Some issues I noticed:

* When you are signing up and type your email address into the box, it gives you an error if you press enter (but it works if you click the button)

* Typo here: http://i.imgur.com/w6rxsqx.png

* Doesn't seem to work on Windows 8. The package installs fine (via pip) but breaks when I try to use it... http://i.imgur.com/Llokwl9.png

CBF sending this as an email

nyddle14• 12 years ago

Thank you! Fixed the singnup box. Haven't tried it on Windows yet (think we'll have to fix some directory code).

dmd• 12 years ago

I get "Method Not Allowed

The method is not allowed for the requested URL."

nyddle14• 12 years ago

Fixed.

prezjordan• 12 years ago

See also: Boom (Open-source). The project page is pretty aggressive, but it's a nice little tool.

http://zachholman.com/boom/

nyddle14• 12 years ago

Stash is actually a "boom in the cloud".

aaronem3• 12 years ago

So they should've named it Thunder?

mushishi• 12 years ago

Slightly related: an old Scala command line todo app of mine: https://code.google.com/p/whendone/wiki/ExampleSession

krat0sprakhar• 12 years ago

Cool tool! How do I save a code snippet if its in a file using stash? An example please?

nyddle14• 12 years ago

cat file | stash set snippet_name

endgame• 12 years ago

stash set snippet_name < file

jljljl• 12 years ago

Is there any way to do the reverse? e.g., pipe or cat the output from stash into a file?

Cool tool by the way, I've been browsing the source and playing around with it.

lesingerouge2• 12 years ago

Looks really cool and will definitely try it. Was also thinking about forking it and making it save the key value pairs on a file in my dropbox.

nyddle14• 12 years ago

Great idea! I think we can somehow add a "remote dropbox" (or whatever) option to the client.

aaronem3• 12 years ago

A reasonable first cut might be making the local storage target configurable (if it isn't already), so that the user could point it to a file synced by Dropbox. It doesn't look like there's any daemon involved, so changes made from one box would be visible on the others as soon as Dropbox finished syncing them.

Ixiaus• 12 years ago

Or you could use org-mode + capture + org-protocol.

nyddle14• 12 years ago

That's for real programmers! http://xkcd.com/378/

blutoot• 12 years ago

After I turn off local mode, why does it still say "local" when adding a new key-value pair?

"Item has been updated (local)"

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