feat(emacs-pkgs/notable): Begin implementation by adding note-taking

I'm writing a note taking system because I don't like any of the
existing ones.

This adds a note-taking function which prompts the user for note
content and persists it in a user-configurable directory.

Next steps are roughly:

* listing notes
* editing notes
* archiving notes

At which point I would consider this functional. The idea is to keep
adding incremental improvements that fit my workflows after that, and
if it ends up being useful for anyone else - great.

Change-Id: I7ae0eb4015511ebdbaeff92d8d32502726eb57c4
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/1981
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: tazjin <mail@tazj.in>
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{ pkgs, ... }:
pkgs.emacsPackages.trivialBuild rec {
pname = "notable";
version = "1.0";
src = ./notable.el;
packageRequires = with pkgs.emacsPackages; [
dash f ht s
];
}

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;;; notable.el --- a simple note-taking app -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
;;
;; Copyright (C) 2020 The TVL Contributors
;;
;; Author: Vincent Ambo <mail@tazj.in>
;; Version: 1.0
;; Package-Requires: (cl-lib dash f rx s subr-x)
;;
;;; Commentary:
;;
;; This package provides a simple note-taking application which can be
;; invoked from anywhere in Emacs, with several interactive
;; note-taking functions included.
;;
;; As is tradition for my software, the idea here is to reduce
;; friction which I see even with tools like `org-capture', because
;; `org-mode' does a ton of things I don't care about.
;;
;; Notable stores its notes in simple JSON files in the folder
;; specified by `notable-note-dir'.
(require 'cl-lib)
(require 'dash)
(require 'f)
(require 'ht)
(require 'rx)
(require 's)
(require 'subr-x)
;; User-facing customisation options
(defgroup notable nil
"Simple note-taking application."
:group 'applications)
;; TODO(tazjin): Use whatever the XDG state dir thing is for these by
;; default.
(defcustom notable-note-dir (expand-file-name "~/.notable/")
"File path to the directory containing notable's notes."
:type 'string
:group 'notable)
;; Package internal definitions
(cl-defstruct (notable--note (:constructor notable--make-note))
"Structure containing the fields of a single notable note."
time ;; UNIX timestamp at which the note was taken
content ;; Textual content of the note
)
(defvar notable--note-lock (make-mutex "notable-notes")
"Exclusive lock for note operations with shared state.")
(defvar notable--next-note
(let ((next 0)
(note-regexp (rx "note-"
(group (one-or-more (any num)))
".json")))
(-each (f-entries notable-note-dir)
(lambda (file)
(when-let* ((match (string-match note-regexp file))
(id (string-to-number
(match-string 1 file)))
(larger (> id next)))
(setq next id))))
(+ 1 next))
"Next ID to use for notes. Initial value is determined based on
the existing notes files.")
(defun notable--serialize-note (note)
"Serialise NOTE into JSON format."
(check-type note notable--note)
(json-serialize (ht ("time" (notable--note-time note))
("content" (notable--note-content note)))))
(defun notable--deserialize-note (json)
"Deserialise JSON into a notable note."
(check-type json string)
(let ((parsed (json-parse-string json)))
(unless (and (ht-contains? parsed "time")
(ht-contains-p parsed "content"))
(error "Missing required keys in note structure!"))
(notable--make-note :time (ht-get parsed "time")
:content (ht-get parsed "content"))))
(defun notable--next-id ()
"Return the next note ID and increment the counter."
(with-mutex notable--note-lock
(let ((id notable--next-note))
(setq notable--next-note (+ 1 id))
id)))
(defun notable--add-note (content)
"Add a note with CONTENT to the note store."
(let* ((id (notable--next-id))
(note (notable--make-note :time (time-convert nil 'integer)
:content content))
(path (f-join notable-note-dir (format "note-%d.json" id))))
(when (f-exists? path) (error "Note file '%s' already exists!" path))
(f-write-text (notable--serialize-note note) 'utf-8 path)
(message "Saved note %d" id)))
;; User-facing functions
(defun notable-take-note (content)
"Interactively prompt the user for a note that should be stored
in Notable."
(interactive "sEnter note: ")
(check-type content string)
(notable--add-note content))
(provide 'notable)