Journ, a command line journaling tool based on a weekly calendar

Years ago, I started logging my daily journal in markdown format. I also started organizing my schedule by weeks. Counting Week 1 as Monday, Jan 2nd til Sunday, Jan 8th. Each day was recorded as markdown file with YEAR-WEEK-DAY format. ie. 2017-02-1 for 2nd week, Monday.

This method kept all my days into single flat files which I could edit with VIM or any text editor and allowed easy manipulation to collate reports and storage in GitHub. I then wrote bash scripts that would concat the files and manage the files. This project takes those methods and creates a Node tool.

Install

npm install -g journ

In your home or project directory, you can create a configuration file Change the journ.cfg.json if you like to journ directory to not be your home directory. The setup process will create the initial working directory and files.

journ config
journ setup

Usage

journ new

Takes the today.md file and renames at a dated file for yesterday. Then creates a new today.md file.

journ . <a new journ entry>

Will write the new line of text to the end of today.md.

journ + <a new task>

Will write a new task of text to the end of task.md.

# Other commands
journ help
journ status
journ week
journ           // display status

File system

kyle@KMBP:~/journ$ pwd
/Users/kyle/journ
kyle@KMBP:~/journ$ ls -l
total 57
drwxr--r--   9    306B Jul  5 07:10 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 50    1.7K Jul  5 07:09 ..
drwxr-xr-x   6    204B Jul  4 09:43 2017
-rw-r--r--   1     95B Jul  4 07:56 2017-W27-1.md
-rw-r--r--   1     29B Jul  4 07:57 2017-W27-2.md
-rw-r--r--   1    747B Jul  3 10:08 pdf.css
-rw-r--r--   1     46B Jul  3 10:08 task.md
-rw-r--r--   1     29B Jul  5 07:10 today.md
-rw-r--r--   1    199B Jul  5 07:10 week-27.md

Documents

• Release Notes
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/journ
• reach me on Twitter: @theronincoder

References

I've references these other repos for this project. You may want to check them out, they have different approaches for journaling.

• https://github.com/uglow/devlog
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
• http://markedstyle.com/

License

This software is licensed under the MIT Licence. See license.md.