PrimCom

PrimCom is a personal knowledge base manager, primarily made for programmers. It is meant to be running in a terminal, thus you can access and consult it quickly while working.

Motivation

There are lots of code snippets that I use often but I couldn't reproduce them easily by heart. When I need such a piece of code, either I look it up on my blog (if I had written about it), or Google it. When I see the code, I remember it and I can modify it to my needs. However, looking up something on the Internet can take time (at least 30-60 seconds).

With PrimCom you can collect your own code snippets with your own examples. You can assign tags to them and find them easily later. PrimCom can perform two main actions: print the content of a file, or open a web page.

PrimCom has several useful features. It has tab completion; it can copy the content of a file to the clipboard; it can syntax highlight your code snippets; it even has a built-in radio player to keep you entertained while coding, etc. See the built-in help for a detailed list.

Quick start

Open a terminal with dark background and launch PrimCom:

$ ./h.py

If you prefer light background, use the light() command or modify directly the config.py file.

Type h for help, d for the list of available tags.

Screenshots

With dark background:

With light background:

Platform

The project was developed under Ubuntu GNU/Linux with Python 2.7.

Details

To learn more about PrimCom, refer to this page: http://jabbalaci.github.io/PrimCom .