From the man page (of 0.4a):
DESCRIPTION
scrawl is a simple program built in perl(1) designed to do one thing, manage notes.
(Well I lie, it will manage any organised collection of textual information, be that notes on various subjects or a journal or whatever)
It keeps the actual copies of the note files in a set of directories created to match the chronology of their creation, however it also maintains a directory of symlinks to these files, so a single file can appear in multiple "topics" (as the catagories are called) for searching and organisational purposes.
In order to try and make the actual location of the files as transparent as possible to the end-user entries are referred to by an "ID number".
From the README page:
Welcome to Scrawl
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Well this is now the second actual release of scrawl, being a total rewrite of the first.
Essentially its (still) a fairly simple program for keeping track of notes that you might want to make (and search through) about a number of topics, think of it rather like an electronic card index.
I wrote it mostly because other programs that have similar aims, while being up for the job, had the wrong feeling or feature-set for me, and so instead of resorting to just buying a card index (being as then I'd have to only work in places where I had it) I thought I'd write this program.
This version was cobbled together in a week of research and reading (after writing a major paper, but before sitting down and really getting going on some coding) mainly because looking at the original version and pondering changing the source or adding features gave me The Fear(tm) but also to get back into coding.
Installation of the program is covered in the INSTALL file, the changes for each version are in the ChangeLog file, things I'm probably going to implement some day are in the TODO file.
A full man-page with examples is included, so please read it because otherwise you're likely to be quite confused.
Any comments, patches, suggestions or thanks are welcome, my email address is in the man-page.
2005-05-19 scrawl 05. (20k)