If you are anything like me, you much prefer a good CLI over clicking around in a GUI.

Now, with Monero it's never "fire up, issue transaction, exit".

Catching up on a week's worth of blocks can mean a long wait - especially if there are anonymity networks between you and the node.

If you decide to cope by leaving the CLI running, you find your tx-notes gone after a reboot. Less recent versions would even loose your sync level. Uff.

You could make it a habit to follow your set_tx_note up with a save, but that's not ideal.

XMRPC

To tackle the issue for myself, I've started to write XMRPC, a POSIX-compliant shell script that allows you to interact with monero-wallet-rpc.

This way you can have the RPC continuously syncing in the background and interact when necessary.

In fact, XMRPC takes care of launching the RPC and also creates a wallet if you happen to be starting from scratch.

The tool is aggressive in that it doesn't require user confirmations. If you tell it to transfer, it will try to do just that - with whatever fee or delay the official Monero client suggests at the given moment.

It can be launched interactively as seen in the image or as "one-shot", where only the command passed as argument is executed (e.g. ./xmrpc.sh balance).

Support for labelling transactions has yet to be added, but some parts of XMRPC have already been powering the OpenAlias-service XMR.ID successfully for a while.

You can check out this first version, tagged 0.1.0-beta, at https://xmr.zone/sxmo-onfire/xmrpc.