peixian / strugglebus

Command line journaling app

strugglebus - a really simple journaling app

strugglebus is a command line journaling app that asks you of only one main thing per day: "what was today's struggles?"

How?

1. python strugglebus.py
2. Answer the questions:
   1. What was your biggest struggle of today?
   2. Why did you have that struggle?
   3. Did you solve it today?
3. Done.

Tech details:

strugglebus writes everything to a giant json file named strugglebus.json. Not pretty, but you can track it with versioning, and it's pretty easy to unravel if you want the data later on.

json format:

-- entry #
   |--- date
   |--- struggle
   |--- why?
   |--- solved?

Why?

I've always been terrible at journaling, mostly because I find that I try to go too far in depth and write too much. This is my attempt to summarize my day by listing the biggest struggle I had that day.

Roadmap

• Build the application
• Allow adding of struggles from previous dates
• Allow the renaming of journal files?
• Remind at specific times
• Only allow journaling at specific times?
• Set up tags
• Set up some form of analytics
• Difficulty of struggle
• Convert to csv
• Move to a webapp?
• Entries from phone?