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# notes2web
View your notes as a static html site.
![](./screenshot.png)
## Why?
I want to be able to view my notes in a more convenient way.
I was already writing them in Pandoc markdown and could view them as PDFs but that wasn't quite
doing it for me:
- It was inconvenient to flick through multiple files of notes to find the right PDF
- It was annoying to sync to my phone
- PDFs do not scale so they were hard to read on smaller screens
- Probably more reasons I can't think of right now
## Install
0. Install [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org/index.html) and [Pip](https://github.com/pypa/pip)
On arch:
```
# pacman -S pandoc python-pip
```
1. Run `make install` as root
## Usage
```
$ notes2web.py notes_directory
```
Output of `notes2web.py --help`:
```
usage: notes2web.py [-h] [-o OUTPUT_DIR] [-t TEMPLATE] [-H TEMPLATE_TEXT_HEAD]
[-f TEMPLATE_TEXT_FOOT] [-i TEMPLATE_INDEX_HEAD]
[-I TEMPLATE_INDEX_FOOT] [-s STYLESHEET]
[-e EXTRA_INDEX_CONTENT] [-n INDEX_ARTICLE_NAMES]
notes
positional arguments:
notes
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-o OUTPUT_DIR, --output-dir OUTPUT_DIR
-t TEMPLATE, --template TEMPLATE
-H TEMPLATE_TEXT_HEAD, --template-text-head TEMPLATE_TEXT_HEAD
-f TEMPLATE_TEXT_FOOT, --template-text-foot TEMPLATE_TEXT_FOOT
-i TEMPLATE_INDEX_HEAD, --template-index-head TEMPLATE_INDEX_HEAD
-I TEMPLATE_INDEX_FOOT, --template-index-foot TEMPLATE_INDEX_FOOT
-s STYLESHEET, --stylesheet STYLESHEET
-e EXTRA_INDEX_CONTENT, --extra-index-content EXTRA_INDEX_CONTENT
-n INDEX_ARTICLE_NAMES, --index-article-names INDEX_ARTICLE_NAMES
```
The command will generate a website in the `output-dir` directory (`./web` by default).
It will then generate a list of all note files and put it in `index.html`.
Then you just have to point a webserver at `output-dir`.
## Uninstall
```
# make uninstall
```