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Life long vim user that was initiated by the terminal here, vim has a special place in my heart, not because the amount of customization that I was able to add,
by Aperocky 7y ago
Life long vim user that was initiated by the terminal here, vim has a special place in my heart, not because the amount of customization that I was able to add, but because it enabled me to write actual diary.
Here's the script.
https://github.com/Aperocky/termlife/blob/master/diaryman.sh https://github.com/Aperocky/termlife/blob/master/diaryman.sh
All I had to do was to type $diary in the terminal and I'm writing my diary in vim. I had never had more extensive record of my life. My distracted ass would never have managed this without that kind of access.
- eqmvii 7y agoI love this! I've been looking for a lighweight diary tool, and this is giving me serious inspiration.
- read_if_gay_ 7y agoCheck out Vimwiki, it has similar functionality and allows hyperlinks to other documents + index page generation
- physicles 7y agoI’ve had something like this for about three years now, except it doesn’t open vim, I just use a single read command and it appends whatever I type with a time stamp. One file per quarter. And there’s a cron job to pop up a window each hour to remind me to type what I’m working on. I’ve used this to figure out how much time I spent on certain tasks by sampling it Monte Carlo style. And sometimes when I run into some weird non-googleable problem, it happens again a few months later and the solution is in those files. It’s like my own real-life syslog. Or like a scientist’s lab notebook.