markdown-journal

A markdown journaling helper

Quickstart

# Install
go install github.com/taylorskalyo/markdown-journal@latest

# Create a new journal entry
echo "# Hello World" > "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md"

# Display journal entries in a timeline view
markdown-journal timeline

# Learn more
markdown-journal --help

Works with vim too!

" Install
Plug 'taylorskalyo/markdown-journal'

" Create a new journal entry
:JournalToday

" Display journal entries in a timeline view
:JournalTimeline

" Learn more
:help journal

Features

markdown-journal makes viewing and exploring markdown journals easier.

Timeline View

The timeline view is simply a markdown formatted index of entries, listed in reverse chronological order. It's an easy way to see your most recent entries or go back in time to revisit old entries.

Labels View

markdown-journal provides a way to label markdown files. Labels can also be thought of as keywords or categories.

• They can appear anywhere in a markdown file (except for code blocks).
• Labels look like this: :label:.
• Any combination of letters, digits, underscores (_), and dashes (-) between two colons (:) creates a label.

The labels command generates a markdown formatted list of entries, grouped by label.

Ctags Integration

By default, the metadata used to generate the timeline and labels views are generated on the fly. However, they can also be cached in a ctags tags file. Other programs can use the tags file to provide additional functionality (e.g. tags command or tagbar plugin in vim)

Vim Integration

This repo includes a plugin for integrating markdown-journal with vim. See doc/journal.txt for a description of the plugin and the commands that it provides.

Anti-features

markdown-journal...

• is not a markdown editor.
• is not a markdown renderer (see pandoc, hugo, jekyll, etc).
• does not impose a particular directory structure. Journal entries can be located anywhere. However, entry file names must begin with a date and end with the markdown extension (i.e. YYYY-MM-DD*.md).
• does not force you to use a particular markdown flavor.