Rusty Notes

A simple local Web-UI Notebook using Markdown.

Install & Setup

$ cargo install -f rusty-notes

You need to a one-tiime setup setup like:

$ git clone https://github.com/mitnk/rusty-notes
$ cd rusty-notes
$ make setup DIR=~/rusty-notes

This will make a notebook for your at ~/rusty-notes, you can make more markdown notes under this directory. Sub-directories will be treated as categories.

You can change the root directory, see "run server" section below.

Run Server

export RUSTY_SERVER_ADDR=127.0.0.1:7777
export RUSTY_DIR_NOTES="$HOME/rusty-notes"
export RUSTY_DIR_TEMPLATES="$HOME/rusty-notes/static/templates"
nohup rusty-notes > /tmp/rusty-notes.log &

Why this is useful?

So that you have a local Markdown notebook tracked and backed up with Git. And simply run rusty-notes behind Nginx for a straightforward blogging system, eliminating the need for a static HTML builder.