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I agree. I suspect with some level of curmudgeonness that it's because author calls themself a pixel-artist. I have a brutalist CLI/programmer take on bullet journalling from vim, just for comparison:

https://jodavaho.io/posts/bash-journalling.html

https://jodavaho.io/posts/bullet-journalling.html

It is essentially:

- One hidden folder for journal entries

- Each entry is a file of the form YYYY-MM-DD.md

- A bash alias will open today's file (or "yesterday" or "next thursday" or "2 weeks") using the date cli util

- A few vim formatting steps make the already-well-functioning github markdown work very nicely.

The code at https://jodavaho.io/posts/bash-journalling.html doesn't work for me. It looks like it is passing vim the -d args, which doesn't seem right since -d opens a diff view. I think you misplaced a comma for the date command. I fixed it for me by doing like this:

  function journal() {
    vim $logdir/$(date +%Y-%m-%d -d "$\*")
  }

Not a comma, but a close-paren. It turns out I had almost precisely that code in my bashrc (had below), so I updated the post to reflect this / your suggestion.

  function journal() {
    vim $logdir/$(date +%Y-%m-%d -d "$*").md
  }

Thanks!

Oh right, why did I say comma.

I have the exact same system but step 4 is eMacs org mode

However my script only opens up the current date - love your extension to enable opening up other dates - gonna steal that :)

I do something similar, but switched from bash/vim/markdown to Joplin a while back. I lost the immediacy of bash, but seamless syncing and editing across multiple devices, especially mobile, made it worth it.

The main thing is that Joplin is still markdown, and I can trivially export if I want to switch to something else.

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