diff --git a/.functions b/.functions
index 0015cc19..12404b5d 100644
--- a/.functions
+++ b/.functions
@@ -1,8 +1,36 @@
-get_col () {
-    for item in `awk "{print \\$$@}"`; do
-        printf $item
-        printf '\n'
+get_cols () {
+    # Usage: get_cols [file_name] [column_num]
+    column_list=""
+    for column_num in $@; do
+	[ -r $column_num ] && continue
+
+	[ $column_num -lt '0' ] && column_num="(NF + 1 $column_num )" #Negative indices like python's array[-1]
+
+	[ -z $column_list ] && column_num="\$$column_num" || column_num=",\$$column_num" # Place commas appropriately.
+
+	column_list="$column_list$column_num"
     done
+    unset column_num
+
+    # Is the first parameter a file?
+    if [ -r $1 ]; then
+	awk "{print $column_list}" $1
+    else
+	awk "{print $column_list}"
+    fi
+    unset column_list
+}
+
+note() {
+    if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
+        (ym && exec $EDITOR $HOME/notes/$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)) ;
+    else
+        $EDITOR $HOME/notes/"$*" ;
+    fi
+}
+
+list_notes() {
+    ls -c $HOME/notes/ | grep "$*"
 }
 
 function get_shas_that_touched() {
diff --git a/bootstrap.sh b/bootstrap.sh
index 299d4f3e..710017f6 100755
--- a/bootstrap.sh
+++ b/bootstrap.sh
@@ -1,11 +1,20 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")"
+CURRENT_DIRECTORY="$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}" | xargs readlink -f)"
+cd $CURRENT_DIRECTORY
+
+echo "Linking From $CURRENT_DIRECTORY"
+
 function doIt() {
-    rsync --exclude "setup.sh" --exclude "Monaco-Powerline.otf" --exclude "web_start.sh" \
-        --exclude "oh-my-zsh" --exclude "tmux-powerline" --exclude ".git/" \
-        --exclude ".DS_Store" --exclude "bootstrap.sh" --exclude "README.md" \
-        --exclude "requirements.txt" --exclude "more_python.txt" \
-        -av . ~
+    [[ -a ~/.dotfiles-backups ]] || mkdir ~/.dotfiles-backups
+    exclude_list="setup.sh Monaco-Powerline.otf web_start.sh oh-my-zsh tmux-powerline .git .gitmodules .DS_store bootstrap.sh README.md more_python.txt . .. requirements.txt"
+
+    for i in .*; do
+        if ! [ -z ${i/*.swp/} ] && ! [[ $exclude_list =~ $i ]]
+        then
+            [[ -a ~/$i ]] && mv ~/$i ~/.dotfiles-backups/$i
+            ln -si $CURRENT_DIRECTORY/$i ~/$i
+        fi
+    done
 }
 
 if [ "$1" == "--force" -o "$1" == "-f" ]; then