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Try this alias. alias jim=' \ journaldir="/home/myusername/journal/" ; \ jfile="log_`date -I`.txt" ; \ jfilepath="$journaldir$jfile" ; \

Try this alias. alias jim=' \ journaldir="/home/myusername/journal/" ; \ jfile="log_`date -I`.txt" ; \ jfilepath="$journaldir$jfile" ; \ echo "Creating log: $jfilepath" ; \ vi $jfilepath ; ' Instructions: (1) Copy to your .bash_aliases file. (2) Edit the journaldir, and replace myusername with your name. (3) Create a journal directory somewhere for #2. (4) Source it. source ~/.bash_aliases (5) jim will open up today's note in Vi. Try it out, and let me know.

mabil 6y ago
I have something similar, with the folder syncing to google drive, you could encrypt if you want to before hand but I never got to it, I separate one file per month. alias journal="vim ~/workspace/google-drive/journal/$(date "+%Y-%m")" Then in vim I have this mapping, by pressing F2 it opens a new line at the end of the file so you can just start typing. I add goals to the beggining of the week with the F3 map. nnoremap <F2> Go<NL><Esc>i<Esc>"=strftime("\%A, \%Y-\%m-\%d \%H:\%M:\%S")<CR>po - nnoremap <F3> Go<NL><NL><Esc>iWeek <Esc>"=strftime("\%V ")<CR>p<Esc>i goals:<CR> - Monday -> Press F3 -> like a bujo, review what is still relevant and move to next week or drop it. Week 10 goals: - [ ] check connectivity with service x, splunk and service Y, from new environment - [ ] xxxx Then whenever I will change context in my mind I just go back to the open buffer and press F2. I normally start my day looking at what happened over the other remote branches, and update my weekly goals task list Thursday, 2020-07-09 08:25:52 - emails / slack Thursday, 2020-07-09 08:36:13 - support x person Thursday, 2020-07-09 10:00:00 - dog break Thursday, 2020-07-09 10:00:00 - HN Then at then end of the year I create a folder `archive/201X/` and move all the files under it. I had a calendar event reminding me to review what happened over the week on Friday afternoon, but that is just lying to myself. I got to do once or twice over the last couple of years, that is something I need to improve on which is the whole point of article, review it while it is fresh and learn from it. edit: code format
- blackrock 6y ago
  Neat. I'll try this out. I had never remapped a key in Vi before. Check out my other alias, in the sibling comment. I improved on it.
blackrock 6y ago
Or, here's an even better alias. alias jim=' \ journaldir="$HOME/journal" ; \ year="`date +%Y`" ; \ yearpath="$journaldir/$year" ; \ [[ -d "$yearpath" ]] || mkdir -p $yearpath ; \ jfile="log_`date -I`.md" ; \ jfilepath="$journaldir/$year/$jfile" ; \ header="# log_`date -I`\n\n# Highlights:\n\n" ; \ [[ -f "$jfilepath" ]] && echo "Opening log: $jfilepath" || { echo "Creating new log: $jfilepath" ; echo -e "$header" > $jfilepath ; } ; \ vi $jfilepath ; ' Copy this to your .bash_aliases file. It's fully automatic. It'll create the directories automatically. This will now create a /home/user/journal/YEAR/journalfile.md. It's now separated by year, so that you can run this forever, and have a maximum of 365 files per year directory. This is a markdown file. And in the header variable, I had it fill in the new file with some basic headers. You can edit this yourself to add more. Try it out, and let me know.
- gtt 6y ago
  jim date: illegal option -- I on macos
  - blackrock 6y ago
    It seems Bash on Mac doesn't work quite the same as Linux. Try this instead. It works for me. Let me know. Copy it to your ~/.bash_aliases. And source it. alias jim=' function _jim() { journaldir="$HOME/journal" year=`date "+%Y"` today=`date "+%Y-%m-%d"` yearpath="$journaldir/$year" [[ -d "$yearpath" ]] || mkdir -p $yearpath jfile="log_$today.md" jfilepath="$journaldir/$year/$jfile" header="# Log: $today\n\n# Highlights:\n\n" [[ -f "$jfilepath" ]] && echo "Opening log: $jfilepath" || { echo "Creating new log: $jfilepath" ; echo -e "$header" > $jfilepath ; } vi "$jfilepath" }; _jim'

mabil 6y ago

I have something similar, with the folder syncing to google drive, you could encrypt if you want to before hand but I never got to it, I separate one file per month. alias journal="vim ~/workspace/google-drive/journal/$(date "+%Y-%m")" Then in vim I have this mapping, by pressing F2 it opens a new line at the end of the file so you can just start typing. I add goals to the beggining of the week with the F3 map. nnoremap <F2> Go<NL><Esc>i<Esc>"=strftime("\%A, \%Y-\%m-\%d \%H:\%M:\%S")<CR>po - nnoremap <F3> Go<NL><NL><Esc>iWeek <Esc>"=strftime("\%V ")<CR>p<Esc>i goals:<CR> - Monday -> Press F3 -> like a bujo, review what is still relevant and move to next week or drop it. Week 10 goals: - [ ] check connectivity with service x, splunk and service Y, from new environment - [ ] xxxx Then whenever I will change context in my mind I just go back to the open buffer and press F2. I normally start my day looking at what happened over the other remote branches, and update my weekly goals task list Thursday, 2020-07-09 08:25:52 - emails / slack Thursday, 2020-07-09 08:36:13 - support x person Thursday, 2020-07-09 10:00:00 - dog break Thursday, 2020-07-09 10:00:00 - HN Then at then end of the year I create a folder `archive/201X/` and move all the files under it. I had a calendar event reminding me to review what happened over the week on Friday afternoon, but that is just lying to myself. I got to do once or twice over the last couple of years, that is something I need to improve on which is the whole point of article, review it while it is fresh and learn from it. edit: code format

blackrock 6y ago
Neat. I'll try this out. I had never remapped a key in Vi before. Check out my other alias, in the sibling comment. I improved on it.

blackrock 6y ago

Or, here's an even better alias. alias jim=' \ journaldir="$HOME/journal" ; \ year="`date +%Y`" ; \ yearpath="$journaldir/$year" ; \ [[ -d "$yearpath" ]] || mkdir -p $yearpath ; \ jfile="log_`date -I`.md" ; \ jfilepath="$journaldir/$year/$jfile" ; \ header="# log_`date -I`\n\n# Highlights:\n\n" ; \ [[ -f "$jfilepath" ]] && echo "Opening log: $jfilepath" || { echo "Creating new log: $jfilepath" ; echo -e "$header" > $jfilepath ; } ; \ vi $jfilepath ; ' Copy this to your .bash_aliases file. It's fully automatic. It'll create the directories automatically. This will now create a /home/user/journal/YEAR/journalfile.md. It's now separated by year, so that you can run this forever, and have a maximum of 365 files per year directory. This is a markdown file. And in the header variable, I had it fill in the new file with some basic headers. You can edit this yourself to add more. Try it out, and let me know.

gtt 6y ago
jim date: illegal option -- I on macos
- blackrock 6y ago
  It seems Bash on Mac doesn't work quite the same as Linux. Try this instead. It works for me. Let me know. Copy it to your ~/.bash_aliases. And source it. alias jim=' function _jim() { journaldir="$HOME/journal" year=`date "+%Y"` today=`date "+%Y-%m-%d"` yearpath="$journaldir/$year" [[ -d "$yearpath" ]] || mkdir -p $yearpath jfile="log_$today.md" jfilepath="$journaldir/$year/$jfile" header="# Log: $today\n\n# Highlights:\n\n" [[ -f "$jfilepath" ]] && echo "Opening log: $jfilepath" || { echo "Creating new log: $jfilepath" ; echo -e "$header" > $jfilepath ; } vi "$jfilepath" }; _jim'