Emanote can be easily built using the Nix expressions provided in its source repo.
You will need Nix version 2.4 or greater.
Installing with Nix Flakes
This will provide the emanote command in your environment.
$ nix profile install github:srid/emanote
Using as flake-parts module
emanote-template uses this approach. See https://github.com/srid/emanote-template/blob/master/flake.nix
Using Emanote as a Home Manager service
Home Manager is a Nix-based personal configuration manager. If you use Home Manager, then Emanote has a module that can be imported into your configuration.
Merge or import this config into your ~/.config/nixpkgs/home.nix:
{ config, ... }:
let
emanote = import (builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/srid/emanote/archive/master.tar.gz");
in {
imports = [ emanote.homeManagerModule ];
services.emanote = {
enable = true;
# host = "127.0.0.1"; # default listen address is 127.0.0.1
# port = 7000; # default http port is 7000
notes = [
"/home/user/notes" # add as many layers as you like
];
package = emanote.packages.${builtins.currentSystem}.default;
};
}
Re-apply your home-manager configuration the usual way (e.g. home-manager switch).
You will then have an emanote command in your profile, and a systemd user service running a live-preview of your notes.
$ home-manager switch
...
$ systemctl --user status emanote.service
● emanote.service - Emanote web server
Loaded: loaded (/nix/store/i1af5hdydwcf7y0r55n7fd67dnw5habd-home-manager-files/.config/systemd/user/emanote.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-11-02 17:17:04 AWST; 17h ago
Main PID: 1705303 (emanote)
Tasks: 26 (limit: 38220)
Memory: 38.3M
CPU: 2.884s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/app.slice/emanote.service
└─1705303 /nix/store/9hj2cwk1jakfws0d1hpwa221kcni3j45-emanote-0.3.12.1/bin/emanote --layers /nix/store/hr7wp1xvqn48b8gy16sdq6k2csrvr8c1-emanote-config;/home/user/notes