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If you live in the UNIX shell and are very directory oriented then Comment may be a useful tool. It allows you to leave yourself notes in various directories. It stores its data in plain text, so you can use regular UNIX tools to search, sort, and rummage through the notes you have left.

• Comment stores comments on a per directory basis. Your comments are relevant to your location
  Leave reminders for…
  • how to compile a source file
  • what state a particular document was in before you had to leave
  • which parameters to use in order to invoke a program to do what you want
  • collaborative working notes
  • …the possibilities go on
• Comment also keeps a central store of all your own personal comments in your home directory, available at any time for you to search.
• Comment stores data in a plain text format, allowing you to use existing text tools to search and manipulate as you need
• Comment uses UNIX file access rights for easy control of permissions

Unfortunately, regardless of how hard I try not to, I tend to save everything to the root of my home directory and then forget later to delete or remove it. Therefore, this tool isn't very helpful for me.