Miscellaneous¶

Geekbook on Mac¶

Spotlight¶

Before using Spotlight you tell Spotlight to stop indexing folder geekbook/engine/data/orig. Thus some technical copies used by Geekbook internally of your notes will not be index by Spotlight.

How to backup your notes?¶

Dropbox¶

You can keep your notes under Dropbox etc.

Git (GitHub)¶

If you want to backup your notes, we recommend to use git :-) and keep your notes as you keep you source code and commit changes and push it to your private (so no one can read it ) repository. For private repositories you can use GitHub but you have to pay.

You can how your notes always online!

Borg (to a remote machine or external drive)¶

You can use Borg. Borg (BorgBackup) is a deduplicating backup program. Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption.

Use something like this:

export BORG_PASSPHRASE='<you secret password>'
export BORG_REPO="malibu:~/notes" # where malibu is a remove machine

borg init malibu:~/notes

borg create -v --stats  malibu:~/notes::{now} ~/geekbook/notes
# remove your old backups notes
borg prune --list -v $BORG_REPO --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=4 --keep-monthly=6

make a bash script and add it to your crontab:

@hourly ~/bin/notes-backup.sh

Borg is way more complex than this. Read please Borg.