owen-allen/photo-notes

photo-notes is a note taking tool for students. Redirect screenshots to a specific directory to make it easier to insert them into your Markdown notes.

photo-notes

What is it?

photo-notes is a tool meant to help students take notes in the online environment. As a student, it is useful to include the images and diagrams from your lectures inside of your notes. When taking notes in Markdown, it can be inconvenient to transfer the files and create the insertion link manually during class. photo-notes does this work for you, so that all you need to do is take a screenshot and paste the automatically created insertion link into your notes.

How does it work?

The tool works by monitoring new input in whatever directory your screenshots are automatically sent to. When a new file is added to that directory, it moves that file to whichever folder the user specifies at start time.

SETUP

1. Download photoNotes.py file

2. Open photeNotes.py and modify the SCREENSHOTS_PATH variable to reflect the path where your screenshots are stored by default on your computer

3. Install aioconsole by running 'pip install aioconsole==0.3.3'. To check if you already have it, type 'pip show aioconsole'

4. Move photoNotes.py to a binaries folder available in your PATH. I used '/usr/local/bin'. If you like, you can also remove the .py extension.

DEMO

1. Open a Terminal in whichever directory you would like to take notes in. In this example, I'm taking notes in the demo directory in the file called notes.md

2. If you'd like to store the images in a specific subfolder, create that folder.

3. Now that I have my directory set up, I can start taking notes. I can run the command 'photonotes demoImages' in the background while I'm taking notes.

Taking a screenshot shows the following.

I can then copy the insertion link and put it in my notes.