did; a weekly journal 📖

One week, one file; to keep yourself in the loop.

Setup

Add the following to your .bash_profile or .zshrc:

source path/to/did/did.sh

Usage

Files and headers are created automatically on the appropriate times.

Usage:

    did [cmd]

Commands:

    (no command)   : opens the current week-file en editor

    ls             : lists all week files
    grep <query>   : shows entries from newest to oldest, optionally filtering by query

Options

• DID_PATH defaults to $HOME/.did
• DID_EXT defaults to md (markdown)
• DID_EDITOR defaults to $VISUAL
• DID_EDITOR_PARAMS empty by default

E.g. set DID_EDITOR_PARAMS to normal Go to have vim go to the end of the document when opening the journal.

Syntax highlights

Get did.vim.

Disclaimer

This is not my idea. I found an article describing this approach. However, I cannot find it after my laptop was stolen. Please let me know if you think you've found it (the article on the laptop).

UPDATE: Found it. Here is the article that introduced the weekly journal to me.

The original script wasis bash based. I've replaced the most complicated parts with small python helpers.