JourNote

JourNote is a proof of concept journal app with a text user interface and a couple of goals:

• to illustrate creating a minimal app of this type (in Python);
• to explore the use of dialog for a day-to-day tool of moderate complexity.

The name is pronounced like in French.

As of March 2024, JourNote is in development, and the state of documentation reflects that. See inside the archive for an introduction.

Download

• JourNote v1.1 (6K)
• source code repository

Requirements

• Python 3.5 or newer
• dialog (tested with version 1.3)
• [optional] grep (for the search feature)

Features

• Use external editor if set, else the dialog edit box.
• Works in any given directory (current one by default).
• Create journal files by day or by month.
• Pick file extension for journal file (plain text / Markdown).
• Configurable number of entries in listings.

To do

• ✅ Improve workflow for Recent and Search.
• ✅ Command-line options.

License and contact

JourNote is open source under the MIT License. See inside the archive for details.

You can usually find me on IRC, in the #ctrl-c channel of tilde.chat, or else on Mastodon. Would love to hear from you.

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