journalist 0.0.3

Writing journal

Journals are stored in the directory ~/.journalist in the following structure.

.journalist
└── journalname
     └── YYYY
        └── MM
            └── YYYY-MM-DD-Day.md

For example, an example ~/.Journalist directory may contain

sumit@HAL9000:pts/0->/home/sumit (0)
> tree .journalist
.journalist
├── personal
│   ├── 2017
│   │   └── 12
│   │       └── 2017-12-28-Thu.md
│   └── 2018
│       └── 01
└── technical
    ├── 2017
    │   └── 12
    │       ├── 2017-12-28-Thu.md
    │       └── 2017-12-29-Fri.md
    └── 2018
        └── 01
            └── 2018-01-03-Wed.md

10 directories, 4 files

To write in a the journal personal, type in the following…

sumit at HAL9000 in ~
$ python3 journalist.py write personal

• If any journal named personal already exists, it will open up the relevant .md file corresponding to the system date (creating it if it doesn’t exist).

• If any journal named personal doesn’t exist, it will prompt the user if they want to create a new journal. If they agree, it will do so and open the corresponding .md file as described above.

The markdown file will be opened in the editor mentioned in the config.yaml file (default is nano). If you change it to something else, make sure an file named filename.md can be opened using that editor by typing editor filename.md in the terminal.

Viewing journal

sumit at HAL9000 in ~
$ python3 journalist.py view personal
[*] Starting Journalist viewer webapp...
[*] View this journal at http://127.0.0.1:5000/journalist?name=personal
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)

Opening the URL http://127.0.0.1:5000/journalist?name=personal in the browser would show us the journal entries rendered in HTML.