I cobbled together a journaling system with {neo,}vim, coreutils and dateutils. This system is loosely based on Ryder Caroll's Bullet Journal method.
The format
The journal for a given year is a directory:
λ ls journal/ 2022/ 2023/
In each directory are 12 files, one for each month of the year, numbered like so:
λ ls journal/2023/ 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12
We can now begin writing stuff down:
λ vim journal/2023/1
Every month must start with a calendar of course, fill that in with:
:read !cal -m
... continue reading