matthiasdold/minjo

minimal journaling setup

Minjo

My minimal journalling setup, making use of plain mardown files and scratchpads integrated in dwm. The idea is to keep it as alightweight and minimal as possible. ]

Workflow

With my current setup, I do have the following functionality:

• Alt+n opens a scratchpad with neovim which starts in a markdown filte at ~/Documents/journal/$(date +%Y_%m_%d).md. If the file does not yet exist, it will be created.
• Alt+N opens a scratchpad with neovim, which first calles combine_journals.sh to create a single markdown containig content from all others and then opens the resulting file at ~/Documents/journal/0_combined_journal.md. This makes it easy to search and navigate the file with neovim. If a checkbox is filled e.g. [ ] --> [x], this is synced back to the original single file upon saving the file.

Setup

This is still a lot manual and requires the following:

1. get the scripts to the journal folder (or tweek all the pathing)

mkdir ~/Documents/journal
cp *.sh ~/Documents/journal

# symlinks to have the scripts executeable or add them to a directory in path
ln -s ~/Documents/journal/open_journal.sh ~/.local/bin/
ln -s ~/Documents/journal/combine_and_open_combined_journal.sh ~/.local/bin/

2. Setup the scratchpads in dwm/config.h

const char *spcmd1[] = {"st", "-n", "spterm", "-g", "120x34", "-e", "/home/md/.local/bin/open_journal.sh", NULL };
const char *spcmd2[] = {"st", "-n", "spfm", "-g", "144x41", "-e", "ranger", NULL };
const char *spcmd3[] = {"keepassxc", NULL };
const char *spcmd4[] = {"st", "-n", "spterm", "-g", "120x34", "-e", "/home/md/.local/bin/combine_and_open_combined_journal.sh", NULL };

3. Enable the sync-back on saving the vim buffer

autocmd BufWritePost 0_combined_journal.md :! bass /home/md/Documents/journal/sync_back_todos.sh

And that should be it :)