add second arg as tag to next.sh

README.md

@@ -16,7 +16,17 @@ Conceptually, `um` is somewhat like org-roam, except without any database depend
 
 This "database" depends on a few simple ideas:
 
-1. A sequentially numbered filename specification which serves as unique id, like this: `001.foo.md`.  The filesystem is the database. Note that the string descriptor is optional.
+1. A sequentially numbered filename specification which serves as unique id, like this: `001.foo.md`.  The filesystem is the database. Note that the string descriptor is optional. In regex terms:
+
+    ```sh
+    ls | egrep '^[[:digit:]]+\.?.*\.md|txt'
+    ```
+
+    In pseudocode:
+
+    ```
+    [leadings numbers].[optional string descriptor and . separator][md|txt]
+    ```
 
 2. Placing that same id into the file header, so that concatenated files have reference back to their source - like this:
 
@@ -37,13 +47,13 @@ This "database" depends on a few simple ideas:
 
 Clone it:
 
-```
+```sh
 git clone https://git.bth.moi/bth/um.git ~/um
 ```
 
 Symlink the `um` CLI somewhere in your `PATH`:
 
-```
+```sh
 ln -s ~/um/shell/um /usr/local/bin/um
 ```
 
@@ -74,8 +84,8 @@ The "command line interface" is just a small set of convenient scripts: since th
 
 2. Decide on a zero-width for your series and seed the first file:
 
-  ```
-  touch 001.md
+  ```sh
+  touch 01.md
   ```
 
   The rest of the commands will now work with this width.
@@ -84,21 +94,63 @@ The "command line interface" is just a small set of convenient scripts: since th
 
 Create a new file, open it with emacsclient, and run `um-journal-header`:
 
-```
+```sh
 um next
 ```
 
+Yields:
+
+```markdown
+# 02.md
+: 2024.01.14
+```
+
 Create a new file with an optional descriptor:
 
-```
+```sh
 um next foo
 ```
 
+Yields:
+
+```markdown
+# 03.foo.md
+: 2024.01.14
+```
+
+Create a new file with an optional descriptor and tag:
+
+```sh
+um next foo bar
+```
+
+Yields:
+
+```markdown
+# 04.foo.md
+: 2024.01.14
++ bar
+```
+
+Or just append `+` to add the descriptor as a tag:
+
+```sh
+um next foo +
+```
+
+Yields:
+
+```markdown
+# 05.foo.md
+: 2024.01.14
++ foo
+```
+
 ## last
 
 `um last` will print the name of the last numbered file. This can be useful on its own, or like this:
 
-```
+```sh
 um last | xargs emacs
 ```
 

shell/next.sh

@@ -1,23 +1,41 @@
-# Get the file name in any numbered series of text files and open with emacs
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Generate the next filename in any numbered series of text files and open with emacs.
 
 # Usage:
-#     $ next [descriptor]
+#     $ next [descriptor] [tag]
 
-# Handles an optional string descriptor. Like this:
+# Handles optional string descriptor and tag. Like this:
 #    $ ls
 #    011.blah.md
+#
 #    $ next foo
 #    012.foo.md
-
-# File format:
-# in regex terms:
-#   [0-9]+\.[.*\.]*md|txt
-# in plain terms:
-#   [leadings numbers with consistent width].[optional string descriptor and . separator][md|txt]
+#
+#    $ next foo bar
+#    013.foo.md
+#
+# Which populates the file like this:
+#
+# # 13.foo.md
+# : 2024.01.14
+# + bar
+#
+# See https://git.bth.moi/bth/um#next
 
 # NOTE the optional $1 arg passed to awk with -v:
 NEXTFILE=`$UMBASEPATH/last.sh | awk -f $UMBASEPATH/next.awk -v arg=$1`
 
+# tag is optional second arg to this script
+TAGINSERT='(previous-line) (insert "+ %s\\n") (next-line)'
+
+# + means insert the string descriptor as tag
+if [ $2 = '+' ]; then
+    UMTAG=$(printf "$TAGINSERT" "$1")
+elif [ $2 ]; then
+    UMTAG=$(printf "$TAGINSERT" "$2")
+fi
+
 # HACK: emacs won't accept piped input as a file name, so we use --eval to open
 # the file via find-file.
-emacsclient --eval "(progn (find-file \"$NEXTFILE\") (um-journal-header) (message \"creating $NEXTFILE\"))"
+emacsclient --eval "(progn (find-file \"$NEXTFILE\") (um-journal-header) $UMTAG (message \"creating $NEXTFILE\"))"

shell/um

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ export UMBASEPATH=`realpath $0 | xargs dirname`
 # catch first arguments with $1
 case "$1" in
     next)
-        $UMBASEPATH/next.sh $2
+        $UMBASEPATH/next.sh $2 $3
         ;;
     last)
         $UMBASEPATH/last.sh