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Better Touch Tool create a DayOne journal entry
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Better Touch Tool create a DayOne journal entry
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/dougpark/dayone
- Owner: dougpark
- Created: 2021-02-26T15:20:31.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2021-12-05T23:11:17.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-06-14T02:35:00.473Z (3 months ago)
- Size: 214 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# DayOne CLI
Use a Better Touch Tool keyboard shortcut to create a DayOne journal entry
I created a Better Touch Tool keyboard shortcut to save the highlighted text to a DayOne journal. I use this all the time to save text snippets for later use. I like how DayOne automatically adds the current date and time to the entry.
* You must have [Better Touch Tool](https://folivora.ai/downloads) installed
* You must have [DayOne](https://dayoneapp.com) installed
* You must have [DayOne2 CLI](https://help.dayoneapp.com/en/articles/435871-command-line-interface-cli) installed
Create a journal in DayOne, my example journal name is "Tech"
Create an All Apps keyboard shortcut in BTT, I used the new [Hyper Key](https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2021/2/hyper-key-via-bettertouchtool) feature to map Shift-Control-Option-Command to caps-lock as a meta key. It's a great way to have a lot of simple keyboard shortcuts. I mapped it to the "A" key, since it was close to the caps-lock key and easy to reach.
1. The first action is to save the selected text to a BTT variable called selected_text.
2. I then quickly show a BTT HUD (this is optional) that a "Save to DayOne" command has been issued.
3. Finally, I execute a terminal command with BTT. This command calls the DayOne2 CLI and passes it the arguments to create the entry.
* /usr/local/bin/dayone2 - path and command to execute
* -j tells DayOne the name of the journal to use, in this case my "Tech" journal
* Tech - name of the journal to use
* new - Dayone2 command to run, in this case create a new entry
* "{selected_text}" a string of text to place in the new DayOne entry, selected_text is the BTT variable created in the first step, the braces {} tell BTT to substitue the actual text value for the variable name.
That's it. Now when I highlight some text and press caps-lock A it will create a new DayOne entry.
