journall

Create a journal entry a day in markdown.

Install

npm install -g journall

Usage

Usage
  $ journall <input>

Options
  -t, --title    A title you want as a heading
  -p, --program  The program to open with
  -e, --editor   Open using $EDITOR
  --path         The path to the folder (Can be specified with $JOURNALL)

Examples
  $ journall --path=/Users/richard/journal
  Log entered. Opening page.
  # Will open a document with the day's date

Journall needs to have a path defined, either as a parameter or using JOURNALL in your environment.

It won't make a new file if today's date is already taken. It also adds in the date as a header, and can add a secondary header with the first argument (or the --title arg).

The idea is that typing journall automatically constructs the file for you, so you don't have to build one yourself, and so you always have a Markdown file you can write anything in that is persistently saved so you don't end up with hundreds of random files in a folder called 'journal'.

You can set the editor using the --program flag, which will override your env var, JOURNALL_PROGRAM. I suggest iA Writer, the best Markdown editor I've found for OS X. You can also use your native editor by using the --editor flag.

From then on, simply type $ journall and today's date should open.

Environmental variables

• JOURNALL: The directory where files should be stored.
• JOURNALL_PROGRAM: The name of the program which will be opened in the shell and used to edit the file.

Alfred

If you're using an Alfred 2 workflow with this, note that Alfred doesn't source your .bash_profile. To get around this, use a workflow with the following bash script, where the journall path is whatever which journall and which node spits out:

/usr/local/bin/node /Users/richard/.nvm/versions/node/v7.5.0/bin/journall {query} --path='/Users/richard/src/journal/' -p 'iA Writer'

Maintainer

@RichardLitt.

Contributing

Feel free! Issues and PRs gladly accepted.

License

MIT © 2014-2017 Richard Littauer