Justanote

Notes Skill

Personal notes manager. Notes live in /home/node/.openclaw/workspace/notes/ as markdown files with optional YAML frontmatter.

On the host (VPS) this maps to /root/.openclaw/workspace/notes/ — data persists across container restarts.

Setup

On first use, create the notes directory if it doesn't exist:

mkdir -p /home/node/.openclaw/workspace/notes/ideas
mkdir -p /home/node/.openclaw/workspace/notes/projects
mkdir -p /home/node/.openclaw/workspace/notes/daily
mkdir -p /home/node/.openclaw/workspace/notes/misc

Note format

---
tags: [idea, article]
created: 2026-03-06
Title
Content here.

Frontmatter is optional. If absent, treat the file as plain markdown.

Paths

All paths below use the variable NOTES for brevity:

NOTES=/home/node/.openclaw/workspace/notes

Commands

List notes

find $NOTES -name '*.md' -type f | sed "s|$NOTES/||" | sort

Search by content

grep -rn --include='*.md' -i 'SEARCH_TERM' $NOTES/

Search by tag

grep -rl --include='*.md' 'tags:.*TAGNAME' $NOTES/

Read a note

cat $NOTES/PATH_TO_NOTE.md

Create a new note

1. Generate a slug from the title (lowercase, hyphens, no special chars). 2. Add YAML frontmatter with tags and created (today's date). 3. Write to the appropriate subdirectory.

cat > $NOTES/SUBDIR/SLUG.md << 'EOF'

tags: [tag1, tag2]
created: YYYY-MM-DD
Title
Content
EOF

Append to an existing note

echo -e "\n## New section\n\nContent to add" >> $NOTES/PATH_TO_NOTE.md

Daily quick note

For quick thoughts without a full note, append to today's daily file:

mkdir -p $NOTES/daily
FILE=$NOTES/daily/$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md
[ -f "$FILE" ] || echo "# $(date +%Y-%m-%d)" > "$FILE"
echo "- $(date +%H:%M) — Quick thought here" >> "$FILE"

Behavior guidelines

On first use, create the notes directory if it doesn't exist:

mkdir -p /home/node/.openclaw/workspace/notes/ideas
mkdir -p /home/node/.openclaw/workspace/notes/projects
mkdir -p /home/node/.openclaw/workspace/notes/daily
mkdir -p /home/node/.openclaw/workspace/notes/misc