ment 0.2.4

python library to write daily log in markdown quickly and to synthesize daily logs based on category

ment

What is this?

ment is a tool to

• write daily logs in markdown quickly

• synthesize daily logs based on category

  Synthesizing daily logs is like sorting loose-leaf notebook.

Installation

pip install ment

Usage

start editting

m

Type m<Enter>.

Default,it means vim ~/ment_dir/<todays_date>/diary.md If you want to switch editor, look configuration

synthesize by tag

m synthe <tag_name>

Then, it extracts contents followed by "# <tag_name>" from daily logs, and outputs ~/ment_dir/synthe/<tag_name>/synthe_<tag_name>.md.

If you want to list tags,m list.

To synthesize recent 7days document,m week. It outputs ~/ment_dir/synthe/week/synthe_week.md.

To read synthesized documents,m read <tag_name>.

To update already synthesized documents, m update.

configuration

If you want to change editor and directory, please set environment variable.

export MENT_DIR="/path/to/documents" 
export MENT_EDITOR="your editor"

Default,MENT_DIR is ~/ment_dir/

directory structure

~/ment_dir/
├── 2021-03-27
│   └── 2021-03-27.md
├── 2021-03-28
│   └── 2021-03-28.md
├── 2021-03-29
│   └── 2021-03-29.md
├── 2021-03-30
│   └── 2021-03-30.md
└── synthe
    ├── tag1
    │   └── synthe_tag1.md
    ├── tag2
    │   └── synthe_tag2.md
    ├── tag3
    │   └── synthe_tag3.md
    └── weeks.md

completion

bash-completion file for ment is bash_completion_for_ment.

cat bash_completion_for_ment >>  ~/.bash_completion
source ~/.bashrc