A shell script that archives Markdown files from various folders with an 'archive' tag. It can be run from a cronjob, making sure your other notes always stay fresh.

$ git clone https://github.com/aapit/note-archiver.git

$ cd note-archiver
$ cp archiver.template.config archiver.config

Set the correct configuration values for your situation in archiver.config

$ chmod +x archive-notes.sh
$ ./archive-notes.sh

We don't want to run this script manually, but instead have the cron daemon do the archiving automatically in the background. Edit the crontab:

$ crontab -e

This opens your default editor and allows you to add this to the cron:

0 */4 * * * $HOME/Scripts/note-archiver/archive-notes.sh

Upon saving the crontab and exiting the editor, it's installed. The cronjob above would run the script every 4 hours.

I use frontmatter headers in all my Markdown notes. This allows me to store metadata in a more-or-less structured format.

---
created:    20190812
updated:    20190815
author:     David
tags:       foo, bar, archive
---

When a *.md note in one of the provided directories has a tag archive like above (or archief) , it's considered up for archival and will be moved to the provided archive folder the next time the cronjob runs.