This talon extension allows displaying notes through actions and commands. This can be useful for quickly looking things up and for having commands display relevant information, such as a voice command for defining an integer in C++ displaying a note on how many bytes an integer is.

By default, compatible notes must be stored in the note_files subdirectory of the talon user directory. You can alternatively set the user.chicken_notes_directory setting to another directory path and then restart talon to use that instead.

Notes should be stored as .txt files with the following format:

name: (name goes here. This is how you refer to the note)
tag: (Optionally, a tag name goes here. Tag names are used when searching your notes.)
link: (Optionally, a link can go here for a relevant webpage.)
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Note text can go here.
The rest of the document is just notes. 

Example:

name: C plus plus int
tag: C plus plus
link: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/types.html
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int, short >= 2 bytes, long >= 4, long long >= 8
Processors cannot do arithmetic operations on types that are too small.
int as defined as the smallest type on the processor that it can do operations on.
Smaller types are implicitly converted to int for computations.
auto will consequently give int in those situations. 

Multiple tags and links go on separate lines prefixed with tag: or link: respectively.

If you make a mistake when defining a note file, an error will be output in the talon log.

note show allows seeing the current note. The display has to be turned on to see anything even if you use an action for showing a note.

note hide hides the display.

note move moves the display to the current cursor position.

note pick {user.chicken_notes_note_name} shows the specified note.

note expand shows the full current note.

note collapse has the note only show text from the first line up to the maximum line length.

note tag search {user.chicken_notes_tag_name} shows the notes with the specified tag name.

note copy link <number> copies the link with the specified number.

note open link <number> opens the link with the specified number.

note page <number> go to the specified page number.

note page next advance the page number.

note page (last|previous) go back a page.

user.chicken_notes_display_brief_by_name takes the name of the note as an argument and displays the text from the first line of the note up to the maximum line length.

user.chicken_notes_display_by_name takes the name of the note as an argument and displays the full note.

user.chicken_notes_max_line_length is the maximum number of characters to display on a line. Make this 0 for no limit.

user.chicken_notes_page_size is the number of lines to show on each page. Make this 0 for no limit.

user.chicken_notes_directory is the directory to put the notes in. Changing this requires restarting talon or reloading this extension's python modules.

user.chicken_notes_display_scale is a floating point value that can be used to change the size of the display.

user.chicken_notes_background_color determines the display background color.

user.chicken_notes_foreground_color determines the display foreground color for the lines and text.

Chicken Notes depends on the following community actions:

user.open_url for opening links