A collection of bash scripts for managing encrypted notes using GPG and Neovim.

A simple way to create and search encrypted notes through your terminal.

• gpg - GNU Privacy Guard for encryption/decryption
• neovim (nvim) - Text editor with GPG plugin support
• vim-gnupg plugin - Neovim plugin for transparent GPG encryption/decryption

• fzf - Required only for interactive file selection in search-notes
• trash - Used by new-note to safely delete empty notes (falls back to rm if not available)

1. Install dependencies:

   # On Arch Linux
   sudo pacman -S gnupg neovim fzf trash-cli
   
   # On Ubuntu/Debian
   sudo apt install gnupg neovim fzf trash-cli
   
   # On macOS with Homebrew
   brew install gnupg neovim fzf trash

2. Install vim-gnupg plugin for Neovim. With vim-plug:

   Plug 'jamessan/vim-gnupg'

3. Make scripts executable:

   chmod +x new-note search-notes

4. Add scripts to your PATH

Configuration is managed through the safenotes-config file. You can customize:

• NOTES_DIR - Directory where notes are stored (default: $HOME/Private/notes)
• GPG_RECIPIENT - Email address for GPG encryption

• FILE_EXTENSION - File extension before .gpg (txt or md)
• TIMESTAMP_FORMAT - Date/time format for filenames

Example configuration:

export NOTES_DIR="$HOME/Documents/encrypted-notes"
export GPG_RECIPIENT="your-email@example.com"

Creates and opens a new encrypted note with Neovim.

# Create note with timestamp only
new-note

# Create note with custom name prefix
new-note "meeting"

Filename format: {optional-name}-{timestamp}.{extension}.gpg

Examples:

• 2024-01-15-143052.txt.gpg
• meeting-2024-01-15-143052.txt.gpg

Searches through all encrypted notes for a given string (case-insensitive).

# Interactive mode - search and select file to edit
search-notes "project deadline"

# Files-only mode - just list matching filenames
search-notes -f "project deadline"
search-notes --files-only "project deadline"

Interactive mode: Uses fzf to display matching files with preview, allows selection for editing.

Files-only mode: Simply prints the filenames that contain matches.

• new-note - Script to create new encrypted notes
• search-notes - Script to search through encrypted notes
• safenotes-config - Shared configuration file
• README.md - This documentation

• Notes are encrypted with GPG using the configured recipient
• The vim-gnupg plugin handles transparent encryption/decryption in Neovim
• Empty notes are automatically deleted after editing