somefile.rst Which is plain text, and vim knows how to display headings and such. I never render it, .rst is just for syntax highlighting in vim. My current fi

somefile.rst Which is plain text, and vim knows how to display headings and such. I never render it, .rst is just for syntax highlighting in vim. My current file is 2742 lines, and goes back to Sept. 2014. I have the following shell script: dt="$1" || "today" date --date="$dt" +"%Y-%m-%d %a" echo "--------------" echo "- " echo I call it from vim: :r!newday or: :r!newday tomorrow Which creates this, which I then fill in as I go: 2016-04-03 Sun -------------- - Commented on HN. - > Make another comment on HN. A plain bullet records what I did. A bullet followed by '>' means something I need to do today (or tomorrow). Most of the time when I complete a todo, I just remove the '>'. If it's still there at the end of the day I move it to the next day's entry. In the manner of .rst, I sometimes have sub-bullets. A new entry goes at the top. I have a few undated long-ish term entries at the very top. That's for my work life. For my personal life I just sit on the couch and wait for emails from my ex-wife.