What does the template option in the configuration do?

[RaghavRao]

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What is the template option in jrnl.yaml? This is not mentioned in the Advanced Usage guide on the webpage. Is this option to be changed to use jrnl < template.txt ?

[heymajor]

Go one below that to recipes.

Relevant piece:

Using templates

Say you always want to use the same template for creating new entries.
If you have an external editor set up, you can use this:

jrnl < my_template.txt
jrnl -1 --edit

Another nice solution that allows you to define individual prompts comes
from Jacobo de
Vera:

function log_question()
{
   echo $1
   read
   jrnl today: ${1}. $REPLY
}
log_question 'What did I achieve today?'
log_question 'What did I make progress with?'

[RaghavRao]

#response_container_BBPPID{font-family: initial; font-size:initial; color: initial;} Thank you. But do I need to change the "template" option in the yaml file? The recipe does not seem to use the yaml file and seems independent of it, so I was curious.  From: notifications@git.luolix.topSent: January 31, 2020 22:46To: jrnl@noreply.git.luolix.topReply-to: reply@reply.git.luolix.topCc: raghav.rao32@gmail.com; author@noreply.git.luolix.topSubject: Re: [jrnl-org/jrnl] What does the template option in the configuration do? (#827) Go one below that to recipes. Relevant piece: Using templates Say you always want to use the same template for creating new entries. If you have an external editor set up, you can use this: jrnl < my_template.txt jrnl -1 --edit Another nice solution that allows you to define individual prompts comes from Jacobo de Vera: function log_question() { echo $1 read jrnl today: ${1}. $REPLY } log_question 'What did I achieve today?' log_question 'What did I make progress with?' —You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[heymajor]

Good question; it's not very clear.

After some tinkering, here's what I think is being said:

If you put the function text block on your .bashrc:

function log_question()
{
   echo $1
   read
   jrnl today: ${1}. $REPLY
}
log_question 'What did I achieve today?'
log_question 'What did I make progress with?'

...you'll be prompted when you reload your shell (source ~/.bashrc). Your answers will be saved at the default_hour and default_minute you set in your config.

Commented on these two commands:

jrnl < my_template.txt     # Imports my_template.txt as the most recent entry
jrnl -1 --edit       # Opens the most recent entry in the editor 

So to answer your original question: The template setting is either false or a double quoted path to the file you want to open in your editor to start your entry like this:

...
tagsymbols: "@"
template: "/path/to/template.txt"
timeformat: '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'
version: "2.1.1"

[micahellison]

Thanks @RaghavRao and @heymajor for the question and answer. Sounds like we need to update the documentation. I'm making some notes here on what to change when I get to it:

• Modify the "advanced" page to mention the template field
• Modify the template info in the recipes page to mention the configuration file
• And, after some quick testing - specify that it won't use the template if you enter a subject line as a command line argument

[heymajor]

• Modify the "advanced" page to mention the template field
• Modify the template info in the recipes page to mention the configuration file

I submitted a pull request that should hopefully take care of these

[micahellison]

Oh I see! PR #829. Like a half hour before that comment. I'll take a look.

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