Rusty Notes

A simple local Web-UI Notebook using Markdown.

Install & Setup

$ cargo install -f rusty-notes

You need to a one-time setup like:

$ git clone https://github.com/mitnk/rusty-notes
$ cd rusty-notes
$ make setup DIR=~/rusty-notes

This will make a notebook for you at ~/rusty-notes, you can make more markdown notes under this directory. Sub-directories will be treated as categories. The Web-UI will be http://127.0.0.1:7777/notes/.

You can change the root directory, see "run server" section below.

Run Server

export RUSTY_SERVER_ADDR=127.0.0.1:7777
export RUSTY_DIR_NOTES="$HOME/rusty-notes"
export RUSTY_DIR_TEMPLATES="$HOME/rusty-notes/static/templates"
nohup rusty-notes > /tmp/rusty-notes.log &

Static files

Static files under $RUSTY_DIR_NOTES/static/ can be access with URLs like:

• http://127.0.0.1:7777/stc/img/hello.png
  • for file: static/img/hello.png
• http://127.0.0.1:7777/code/2024/foo.c
  • for file: static/code/2024/foo.c

Why is this useful?

So that you have a local Markdown notebook tracked and backed up with Git. And simply run rusty-notes behind Nginx for a straightforward blogging system, eliminating the need for a static HTML builder.