For example, things you do often but not often enough to make a muscle memory? On Linux systems with Bash, I just use bash aliases. If I do it more than once, It gets an alias or a script; cause I won’t remember next time. Example of my current desktop aliases :
alias fuck='sudo $(history -p \!\!)'
alias hstat='curl -o /dev/null --silent --head --write-out '\''%{http_code}\n'\'''
alias ls='ls -la --color=auto'
alias pwgen='< /dev/urandom tr -dc "_A-Z-a-z-0-9\#\+=\$" | head -c${1:-15};echo;'
alias rsync='rsync -ah --info=progress2'
And in my bashrc I have the following settings and functions which come in handy when heads down in the terminal:
# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histappend
# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=2000
HISTTIMEFORMAT="%Y-%m-%d %T "
####
function stopwatch() {
local BEGIN=$(date +%s)
echo Starting Stopwatch...
while true; do
local NOW=$(date +%s)
local DIFF=$(($NOW - $BEGIN))
local MINS=$(($DIFF / 60))
local SECS=$(($DIFF % 60))
local HOURS=$(($DIFF / 3600))
local DAYS=$(($DIFF / 86400))
printf "\r%3d Days, %02d:%02d:%02d" $DAYS $HOURS $MINS $SECS
sleep 0.5
done
}
function md() {
pandoc "$1" | lynx -stdin;
}
function weather() {
( IFS=+; curl wttr.in/$(curl -s http://ipwho.is/ | jq .postal););
}
So what do you do to remember or recall your most used commands?
I put them in notes in Joplin.
I want to like Joplin and considered using it, but I don’t like the electron base it is. And then converting my existing KB to a new format yet again… ugh.
I’ve found Joplin to be “acceptable” to share notes from mobile. When sharing through a shared drive, it saves each note as a separate markdown file, so it technically is greppable plain text, my only gripe is it puts all the files in a single dir. I think it can also import them, or you could add notes directly to the dir.
Over time, I’ve migrated most of my KB to some sort of markdown: Zim Wiki, DokuWiki, Joplin.
I still have some locked up in MediaWiki dumps, probably should spin one up and migrate it all.