create-boostnote-cli

Create a note in Boostnote via the CLI

Installation

To use this script, you need the node module uuid. Please ensure node is installed on your system, then follow the steps below:

1. git clone git@github.com:dbuskariol/create-boostnote-cli.git
2. cd create-boostnote-cli
3. npm install uuid

Setup

The script sets variables that are used to fill the node metadata. Please set the following variables located at the top of the create_note.sh script:

node_path="path/to/node/binary"
note_folder="note_folder_id"
note_title="title"
note_body="body"
note_storage_path="path/to/boostnote/storage"

In this context:

• node_path refers to the path of the node binary. For example: /Users/<username>/.nodenv/versions/<node_version>/bin/node
• note_folder refers to the folder ID that you store your notes in. This can be found by navigating to Boostnote preferences, clicking on the "Storage" tab and selecting the ID beside the folder name. For example in the folder Important Things(3e22846e3dab55ea2874), 3e22846e3dab55ea2874 would be the note_folder value.
• note_title refers to the title you want the note to have
• note_body refers to the body you want the note to have
• note_storage_path refers to the full path of the Boostnote storage folder. For example: /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Boostnote/Storage"

Usage

To use the script, run the following command:

sh create_note.sh

Integrations

This script can easily be adapted to take input for the note_title and note_body variables, as well as additional metadata such as tags. I've modified this script to be used in an Alfred workflow that pulls ticket information from my ticketing system's API to create a matching note.