Journaler for Unix

A bash script for quickly generating and accessing local journal entries

How to install and use

Clone the repository to your desired journaling directory

git clone https://github.com/miles-crighton/journal-for-unix.git

Run the bash script

./journaler.sh

Input your preferred text editor and journal away!

Optionally: create bash shortcut function

Run this command from the project directory:

echo "journal() { "$PWD"/journaler.sh \$@; }" >> ~/.bash_profile

You should now be able to run the program simply using:

journal

Feature flags

Heres a list of flags to access additional features:

• Open a specific journal entry: -d <DD-MM-YYY>
• Change your default text editor command: --change-editor <text-editor-cmd>

To-do

• Append time of entry to each entry

Tested with bash 3.2