devjournal

Slick terminal-based journal for developers.

Feature comparison

	devjournal	Evernote
Creating, editing and deleting entries	✅	✅
Closed source	⬜	✅
Data stored outside your control	⬜	✅
Overly bloated and impractical CLI	⬜	✅

Installation

pip install devjournal

Optional configuration

Directory

The default directory for storing configuration and journal entries is ~/.devjournal. This can be overridden with the DEVJOURNAL_DIR environment variable.

Git synchronization

Optionally, run dj setup to specify a Git repo and branch to be used for syncing. It is required that

• you have ssh access to the server,
• the repo has at least one commit already, and
• you have push rights on to the specified branch.

Editor

If running on Windows, consider setting the environment variable EDITOR to an editor of your choice, to make devjournal use that editor when editing journal entries.

Usage

Adding new journal entry

$ dj add

This command will open the entry in the editor specified by the environment variable EDITOR. If that variable is not set, it will use the start command instead, which on Windows opens the editor for .txt files (by default Notepad).

Alternatively, you can add the text of the entry directly on the command line:

$ dj add This is my journal entry

Listing entries

Listing all entries

$ dj log
1 | 2022-12-25 16:15:56.536078 | add hello world

Listing only entries containing any of the search terms

$ dj find hello
1 | 2022-12-25 16:15:56.536078 | add hello world

Editing entries

Editing a journal entry

$ dj edit 1

Amending the last journal entry

$ dj amend

Deleting a journal entry

$ dj delete 1

Low-level control

Each run of dj add creates a new file in ~/.devjournal/entries. In case of unexpected events, you can always edit the files and do git commands in that folder manually.

Developing

# Setup pre-commit and pre-push hooks
hatch run pre-commit install -t pre-commit
hatch run pre-commit install -t pre-push

Running tests

hatch run cov