Since I switched to Linux I have been looking for ways to be more productive as a student. I found a post written by Gilles Castel that explained his awesome way of making notes using Latex and Python scripts.

Read the original post on Gilles’ website.

The previous version of this tool was written in Rust. I recently rewrote it using Bash

You can check out the code on Github.

The tool reads through a base directory that is filled with semesters or periods. When executing the school-setup semesters command you can expect something that looks like this.

• semester-1
• semester-2
• period-1
• period-2
• period-3

You can select a period or semester by executing the school-setup semesters <semester> command.

This behaviour is copied for courses, a list is shown when executing school-setup courses and a course can be selected with the school-setup courses <course> command.

All of my keybindings are managed by the sxhkd keyboard daemon. I use rofi to show the output of my tool.

I also created keybindings for opening a terminal or file manager in the current course directory.

# show semesters
super + s
    rofi -modi 'semesters:school-setup semesters' -show semesters -p '' -theme-str 'prompt \{ enabled: false; \}'

# show courses in current semester
super + c
	rofi -modi 'courses:school-setup courses' -show courses -p '' -theme-str 'prompt \{ enabled: false; \}'

# show current course in file manager
super + o
	pcmanfm /home/kaj/school/course

# show current course in terminal
super + p
	alacritty --working-directory /home/kaj/school/course