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.
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.
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.
With dark background:
With light background:
The project was developed under Ubuntu GNU/Linux with Python 2.7. It is suggested that you install the following packages (via apt-get):
- python-pygments (syntax highlighting)
- xsel (copying to the clipboard)
- mplayer2 (radio)
- python-psutil (process manipulation; or:
pip install psutil) - python-requests (or:
pip install requests)
To learn more about PrimCom, refer to this page: http://jabbalaci.github.io/PrimCom .