gthnk is a personal knowledge management system
Project description
gthnk is a personal knowledge management system. Capture your ideas using plain old text files. Make a journal that lasts 100 years.
Overview
- gthnk presents a journal consisting of many entries.
- Entries are created using plain old text files, which gthnk imports once per day.
- Any text editor can be used to add information to gthnk.
- Entries are searchable using the embedded gthnk server, which can be accessed with a browser.
- Plain-text enables backup/restore via hardcopy (e.g. paper) for long-term archival.
The easiest way to run gthnk is with Docker. gthnk also installs on Windows, Linux, and MacOS systems with Python 3.5+. See the Installation document for more details.
Quick Start
Use Docker to run gthnk with all files stored locally in ~/.gthnk.
docker run -d --rm \ --name gthnk-server \ -p 1620:1620 \ -e TZ=America/Toronto \ -v ~/.gthnk:/home/gthnk/.gthnk \ iandennismiller/gthnk
The default text file where you will record journal entries is ~/.gthnk/journal.txt.
Open journal.txt with a text editor to add new journal entries.
Open http://localhost:1620 to access the user interface.
Journal Entries
Use the journal by editing journal.txt with a text editor. First, insert a date marker YYYY-MM-DD and a blank line to start a new journal day. Then, insert a time marker HHMM and a blank line to start a journal entry.
2020-07-04 0804 This is a simple journal entry. 0805 And this is a separate entry, a minute later.
Those two delimiters - date and time followed by a blank line - are all there is to the gthnk journal file format. The rest is Markdown.
You can add multiple entries per day - and multiple days in a single journal - by inserting date and time markers as you work.
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