APKM

APKM stands for Awk Personal Knowledge Management.

It is a set of tools for managing a collection of markdown files.

Dependencies:

• Git;
• SQLite;
• GNU's gawk or Busybox's awk.
• GNU's bash or Busybox's ash.

You must cd to the directory where your markdown collection in order to use the tools.

Directory structure

This is the basic directory structure:

base
├── .apkm
│   ├── conf.txt
│   ├── html
│   ├── meta
│   └── meta.db
└── .git

The markdown files will be saved in the base directory.

The files related to APKM tools will be saved in base/.apkm, including configurations, metadata and HTML files. The .apkm directory is managed by the APKM tools. The base directory can be anyone that has a .apkm directory inside of it.

Additionally, git related files will be in base/.git. The .git directory is managed by the git program. The version management will be provided by this software.

Metadata Structure

Metadata files

The metadata file structure:

uuid: # UUIDv8 of the file path
path: # Path relative to the base directory
name: # File name
hash: # File hash
crdt: # Create date
updt: # Update date
tags: # Comma separated values

The list of links file structure:

1: link1
2: link2
3: link3

The metadata file and the list of links file have the same relative path of the markdown files, with an additional suffix. The suffix for metadata is ".meta", while the suffix for list of links is ".link".

Both files are updated before the respective entities in the SQLite tables. The function that updates the SQLite tables reads these files instead of the markdown files. In other words, the SQL database is build and refreshed based on them.

These files also serve as backups for reconstruction of the SQL detabase if it eventually gets corrupted.

Metadata tables

The metadata table schema:

CREATE TABLE meta_ (
    uuid_ TEXT, -- UUIDv8 of the file path
    path_ TEXT NOT NULL, -- Path relative to the base directory
    name_ TEXT NOT NULL, -- File name
    hash_ TEXT NOT NULL, -- File hash
    crdt_ TEXT NOT NULL, -- Create date
    updt_ TEXT NOT NULL, -- Update date
    tags_ TEXT NULL, -- Comma separated values
    CONSTRAINT meta_uuid_ PRIMARY KEY (uuid_)
) STRICT;

The links table schema:

CREATE TABLE link_ (
    orig_ TEXT NOT NULL, -- UUIDv8 of the origin file
    dest_ TEXT NULL, -- UUIDv8 of the destination file
    href_ TEXT NOT NULL, -- Path relative to the origin file (as is) or URL
    path_ TEXT NULL, -- Path relative to the base directory (normalized)
    type_ TEXT NOT NULL, -- Link type: Internal (I), External (E)
    brok_ INTEGER DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL, -- Broken link: unknown (0), broken (1)
    CHECK (type_ IN ('I', 'E')),
    CHECK (brok_ IN (0, 1)),
    PRIMARY KEY (orig_, href_),
    FOREIGN KEY (orig_) REFERENCES meta_ (uuid_),
    FOREIGN KEY (dest_) REFERENCES meta_ (uuid_)
) STRICT;

The links table is more detailed than the list of links file.

To Do List

This is a list of features to be implemented:

• A function to normalize relative paths.
• A function to check whether a link is internal or external.
  • If a link is internal, link_.dest_ is a UUID, HREF is relative to the file and PATH is relative to the base directory.
  • If a link is external, link_.dest_ is NULL and HREF is the URL to an external resource and PATH is NULL.
• A function to check if internal links are broken, verifying whether the file pointed by the path exists.
• A function to check if external links may be broken, verifying whether a HTTP request returns 200 (OK) or 404 (NOK).
• A function to move a file from a path to another, while updating and normalizing links.
• A function to remove a file from a path to another, while deleting marking links pointing to it as broken.
• A script to convert markdown texts to HTML files, placing the output into .apkm/html
• A simple script to serve the HTML files in .apkm/html in the local interface at a specific port.
• A script to generate metadata about markdown texts, placing the output into .apkm/meta
  • The metadata will be saved as files in .apkm/meta.
  • The metadata will also be saved in a SQLite database in .apkm/meta.db.

Goals:

• Make it Busybox awk and GNU's gawk

References for Busybox awk:

• https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Awk
• https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Regex

License

This project is Open Source software released under the MIT license.