Everybody writes notes. I found that my way of doing it was not efficient enough for some reason. I wanted to have them distributed in different folders (logical divisions) and have them synchronized to the cloud in an easy way plus being able to use a decent editor so I decided to give it a try with the one I had already installed: Visual Studio Code.

First of all, I installed the following extensions for VS Code:

• Notes
• RunOnSave

Notes extension provides some cool options to ease the notes writing (TODO items and code fragments are key for me)

To accomplish my goal of synchronization to the cloud, I decided to use GitHub as the storage for my notes.

I created a folder for my notes and started a git repository there:

    git init

Then I created a GitHub repo and added it as a remote to the repository:

    git remote add origin git@git.....

I created a script to automate the synchronization with GitHub, I stored it under the notes folder in the path ".auto/commit.sh":

    git add -A
    git commit -m 'auto commit'
    git push origin

As the last step, I configured RunOnSave extension by creating a configuration file in the notes folder under the path ".vscode/settings.json" with this content:

    "emeraldwalk.runonsave": {
        "commands": [
             {
                "match": ".notes",
                "isAsync": true,
                "cmd": "./.auto/commit.sh"
             }
        ]
    }

With the project configured in this way, once a "*.notes" file is saved, it gets automatically committed to the GitHub repository.

With this approach, I found a way to freely organize my notes in the folders I want and synchronize them in a frictionless way.