one-adam-nolan / dev-journal

Dev Journal (DJ)

Overview

It started with tracking my work in markdown files a few years back. I'd create a new markdown file and start typing away each day. The formatting could have been more consistent, timestamps were only sometimes there, or I would get too lazy to type it out.

After a while, I made a few Python scripts to spice things up. But I wrote those with relative paths, meaning I had to execute them in a specific directory. Also, my "source code" was in the journal directory itself.

While attempting to add a Vim script to execute the Python scripts from any terminal session anywhere, I realized I needed to create a CLI application to solve this problem.

This project solves a few problems:

• I get work with Go, which is new to me
• Log my work from anywhere in a terminal, including with Vim scripts
• Work with Dev Containers

Installing

1. go build -o dj
2. sudo mv dj /usr/local/bin

If you use go install it will put the binary in the $GOBIN, which may make it so the autocompletion does not work properly.