Logseq Interstitial journaling

Interstitial journaling is a productivity technique created by Tony Stubblebine. To my knowledge, it’s the simplest way to combine note-taking, tasks, and time tracking in one unique workflow. -- Interstitial journaling: combining notes, to-do & time tracking - Ness Labs

Logseq Interstitial journaling

Because your journal is neither foreboding nor an afterthought
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This plugin helps you quickly create time-stamps, without interupting your thought. As a bonus it can start your day with a quote, or a note to self.

It is true. I am 217% happier now.

— Excited customer

Table of Contents

Installation
Using the plugin
Configuration
License
Contact
Acknowledgments

Installation

Preparation

Click the 3 dots in the righthand corner and go to Settings.
Go to Advanced and enable Plug-in system.
Restart the application.
Click 3 dots and go to Plugins (or Esc t p).

Install plugin from the Marketplace (recommended)

Click the Marketplace button and then click Plugins.
Find the plugin and click Install.

Install plugin manually

Download a released version assets from Github.
Unzip it.
Click Load unpacked plugin, and select destination directory to the unzipped folder.

Using the plugin

This plugin makes it just a tiny bit easier to use Logseq as an interstitial journal. Two shortcuts that create timestamps, either as a header, or just (bold) text.

Next, it makes it possible to send a note to yourself (write yesterday, see today), or just add a random note to a template.

Adding timestamps to your journal

Use Ctrl-t to insert a timestamp in the current block/line.
Use Ctrl-Shift-t to insert a timestamped heading in the current block/line.

In the settings you can reverse this, so the default Ctrl-t becomes a timestamped heading.

Configuration

Under settings you can change the default timestamp, and if you want to use bold text.

You can choose Markdown or Org-mode, depending on what you use.

The level of the heading, where the timestamp is inserted, defaults to 3 (### HH:MM <optional title>)

New: It is possible to insert custom markup around the time.

Example: [<time>] this wil print: [20:23]

Leave blank for default timestamp.

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Templates

The default way to use the plugin is place one or more placeholders in your daily template. Then, when the template is run at midnight, a random note and a note to self are block-linked into place.

The plugin gives to commands to insert a "note to self" or a "random quote".

The idea is to put these in a template, and then, when the template is executed, the result will be a linked block to the not e or quote.

Usage:

type: /Create Note to Self or /Create Random Quote, and it will insert a code-snippet that will then be run with the template.

The default placeholder looks like this:

{{renderer :interstitial, yesterday, ntnds}}
{{renderer :interstitial, random, quote}}

yesterday Will backlink a block from yesterday, random finds any block in your graph with the specified tag. Next you can alter ntnds and quote, you can choose any tag you use in your system, these are just the ones I use 😁.

These placeholder are supposed to go in your (daily) template, but they will happily work anywhere you put them. If you put them in a template they will wait running, until the template is activated.

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