Plugin: Journal

This is why I actually use a really simple bash script to capture things to my scratch notebook, it just uses the joplin terminal commands. I'll then format it and clear it out later. I have the script bound to a shortcut so it opens anywhere.

#!/bin/bash
joplin use @scratch
read -p 'Title: ' title
read -p 'Text: ' text
joplin mknote "$title"
joplin set "$title" body "$text"
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Thanks for sharing your experience.

Yes i have something like this with Espanso for now (linux + windows)

Is it possible to have two journal with this plugin? For example, I have "personal journal" and "work journal".

This is what I want too. But I have to say sorry to you, it has a lot of work to do to implement this feature. I'm not available in near feature.

Maybe someday I'll rewrite this plugin to make it feature rich.

Thanks.

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Thank you for the replied and thank you for the plugin. I will keep an eye out for the day of the rewrite of this plugin.

I have been trying your plugin and I think it is perfect as it is.

If you end up making a feature rich version, please can we retain the current version for us simple souls to continue using?

Many thanks for your efforts.

Hi @cornsplicer, I'm glade that you like this plugin.

And, the current features are also what I am using everyday, and will be kept in newer version.

By the way, each version would be available here Releases · leenzhu/joplin-plugin-journal · GitHub, if someday you feel the newer versions are too bloated, you could still download the old versions, and install them.

Many thanks for the reply. I'll rest easy now.

The option/cmd/D keyboard shortcut in Journal used to open a Journal note for today, isn't working any longer...

Option/cmd/D is now part of Apple multitasking shortcuts and opens the Dock when Hiding is turned on. Perhaps option/cmd/T (for Today) could be a replacement?

Alternatively, I can use the menu or option/cmd/O, click the date and click OK.

Yes I encountered this problem the other day. My suggestion is to go into Joplin/Preferences/Keyboard shortcuts/Journal today and change the keystroke combination. In my case I just added "Shift" to the string and it now works fine.

I just opened an issue to have the ability to use time elements (hour, 24hour, min, sec) in the default note name. I like having multiple journal notes/day with the date AND time in the note name. The default note naming already partially supports this ability. I put more tech details in the issue.

Thanks for a great plugin!
Dean

@DeanH Thanks for pointing out this issue. I was planning to support time at the beginning, buf after fixing timezone(UTC/Local) problem, I forgot to implent it. I'll try to complete it latter.