daybook

Take the effort out of journaling. Run daybook to effortlessly create a daily entry in the right folder, with your editor.

npm install -g daybook

Then put this in your .bashrc/.zshrc/.whateverrc:

export DAYBOOK_DIR=$HOME/my-daybook-entries
export EDITOR=vim

Then run daybook.

If today is August 25th, running daybook will open ~/my-daybook-entries/2015-08-25.txt in vim:

$ daybook

To open the daybook entry from May 15th, 2014:

$ daybook 2014-05-15

/daybook/