{"id":21883212,"url":"https://github.com/pinjasaur/jrnl","last_synced_at":"2026-04-11T08:33:36.571Z","repository":{"id":74816693,"uuid":"257770484","full_name":"Pinjasaur/jrnl","owner":"Pinjasaur","description":"Frictionless journaling from the CLI","archived":false,"fork":false,"pushed_at":"2020-05-23T22:42:41.000Z","size":5,"stargazers_count":1,"open_issues_count":2,"forks_count":0,"subscribers_count":3,"default_branch":"master","last_synced_at":"2025-01-26T19:22:20.800Z","etag":null,"topics":[],"latest_commit_sha":null,"homepage":"","language":"Shell","has_issues":true,"has_wiki":null,"has_pages":null,"mirror_url":null,"source_name":null,"license":null,"status":null,"scm":"git","pull_requests_enabled":true,"icon_url":"https://github.com/Pinjasaur.png","metadata":{"files":{"readme":"README.md","changelog":null,"contributing":null,"funding":null,"license":null,"code_of_conduct":null,"threat_model":null,"audit":null,"citation":null,"codeowners":null,"security":null,"support":null,"governance":null,"roadmap":null,"authors":null,"dei":null,"publiccode":null,"codemeta":null}},"created_at":"2020-04-22T02:30:48.000Z","updated_at":"2023-05-29T04:07:38.000Z","dependencies_parsed_at":null,"dependency_job_id":"6bae762a-558a-4602-9993-4047ed4ed31a","html_url":"https://github.com/Pinjasaur/jrnl","commit_stats":null,"previous_names":[],"tags_count":1,"template":false,"template_full_name":null,"repository_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/Pinjasaur%2Fjrnl","tags_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/Pinjasaur%2Fjrnl/tags","releases_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/Pinjasaur%2Fjrnl/releases","manifests_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/Pinjasaur%2Fjrnl/manifests","owner_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners/Pinjasaur","download_url":"https://codeload.github.com/Pinjasaur/jrnl/tar.gz/refs/heads/master","host":{"name":"GitHub","url":"https://github.com","kind":"github","repositories_count":244890135,"owners_count":20527038,"icon_url":"https://github.com/github.png","version":null,"created_at":"2022-05-30T11:31:42.601Z","updated_at":"2022-07-04T15:15:14.044Z","host_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub","repositories_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories","repository_names_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repository_names","owners_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners"}},"keywords":[],"created_at":"2024-11-28T09:39:46.860Z","updated_at":"2026-04-11T08:33:31.513Z","avatar_url":"https://github.com/Pinjasaur.png","language":"Shell","funding_links":[],"categories":[],"sub_categories":[],"readme":"# jrnl\n\n[![Travis](https://img.shields.io/travis/Pinjasaur/jrnl.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/Pinjasaur/jrnl)\n\nFrictionless journaling from the CLI.\n\nEach day is a discrete plaintext file: `$JRNL_DIR/YYYY/MM/DD.txt`. Each entry\nadded will auto-prepend the time. Multiple entries in a single day will be\ndelimitted with Markdown-style `---` notation.\n\nYou can choose to add content directly from the CLI or edit an entry in your\npreferrered `$EDITOR`.\n\n## Installation\n\nRequires Bash \u003e= 4 (for [`globstar`][globstar]).\n\nAdd the [`jrnl` script](/jrnl) to your `$PATH` or create a function similar to:\n\n```bash\njrnl() { \n  /path/to/jrnl \"${@}\" \n}\n```\n\n`jrnl` defaults to writing to `$HOME/Journal`. You can customize this by setting\n`$JRNL_DIR` to something else (e.g. `export JRNL_DIR=\"$HOME/Dropbox/Journal\"`).\n\nYou'll also want to make sure `$EDITOR` is set to your preferred editor \n(e.g. `export EDITOR='vim'`).\n\n## Usage\n\nRun `jrnl` to start writing. You can list entries with `jrnl --list` and show\nthe usage info with `jrnl --help`:\n\n```\njrnl [\u003carguments\u003e]\n\n  Creates a file in $JRNL_DIR/YYYY/MM/DD.txt.\n\nOptions:\n  -h --help  Show this.\n  -l --list  List entries.\n  \u003ccontent\u003e  Populate entry with \u003ccontent\u003e. If not set, open with $EDITOR.\n```\n\n## Related\n\n- [jot] - Create \u0026 manage Markdown files from the CLI\n- [jt] - Quickly create timestamped notes (simplified version of [jot])\n\n## License\n\n[MIT][license] \u0026copy; Paul Esch-Laurent.\n\n[jot]: https://github.com/Pinjasaur/jot\n[jt]: https://github.com/Pinjasaur/jt\n[license]: https://pinjasaur.mit-license.org/2020\n[globstar]: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/globstar-new-bash-globbing-option\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fpinjasaur%2Fjrnl","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fpinjasaur%2Fjrnl","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fpinjasaur%2Fjrnl/lists"}