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Building a Minimalist Journaling System with Vim and Coreutils

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9mo ago· 7 min readen

Summary

The article describes a personal journaling system built using tools like {neo,}vim, coreutils, and dateutils, inspired by Ryder Caroll's Bullet Journal method. The system organizes journal entries by year and month in a directory structure, with each month represented by a numbered file. The author provides a practical example of how to start writing entries using this setup.

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I cobbled together a journaling system with {neo,}vim, coreutils and dateutils.
This system is loosely based on Ryder Caroll's Bullet Journal method.
The journal for a given year is a directory.
Every month is represented by a numbered file in the directory structure.
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journaling system cobbled together with nix, vim, coreutils

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