cympfh / journal.vim

org-journal in your Vim

journal.vim

Inspired by org-journal.

With journal.vim, you can write down diary and ideas very easily.

Setup

mkdir and,

let g:journal_dir = "~/Dropbox/org/journal"
Plug 'cympfh/journal.vim'

All commands can be remapped.

Commands

New journal

let g:journal_new = "<C-j><C-j>"  " default

New markdown file YYYY/mmdd.md will be created under g:journal_dir.

Goto Prev/Next journal

let g:journal_next = "<C-j><C-n>"  # 1 day after
let g:journal_prev = "<C-j><C-p>"  # 1 day before

Grep

let g:journal_grep = "<C-j><C-g>"

:JournalGrep command takes 1 argument for searching keyword (grep pattern). This uses ripgrep if executable.

Tags

let g:journal_tags = "<C-j><C-t>"

With 1 argument, :JournalTags ... does grep search (ripgrep recommended). Without argumens, :JournalTags list up all tags.

Journal Format

Basically journal files are just markdown. Some features are appended.

Checkbox

- [ ] hogehoge
- [ ] fugafuga

You can toggle the state with

let g:journal_toggle = "<C-j><C-x>"  " default

- [x] hogehoge [2021/01/28 (Thu) 14:03]
- [ ] fugafuga

TODO State

- TODO hoge

The state are switched with g:journal_toggle.

Tags

Identifiers #... (e.g. #idea #reading) are tags. Tags can be searched with :JournalTags.

Syntax

Please load plasticboy/vim-markdown or sheerun/vim-polyglot.