wustep / journo

Journaling utilities for Notion

journo

Tooling for Notion journaling synthesis, by @wustep

description

This repo creates some utilities and scripts for synthesizing journals from Notion.

Currently, it can ingest text from a Notion DB and dump thoughts in various organizational patterns. More coming soon!

Inspired by this review of Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries.

setup

1. Follow the instructions in https://www.notion.so/help/create-integrations-with-the-notion-api to create a Notion integration and receive an API key!
2. Share the desired pages and databases in your workspace with the Notion integration.
3. With NPM installed, run npm install and in this root directory. Optionally use npm install -g instead to install globally so you can use the command journo directly.
4. Use npm build to build the codebase.
5. Now, you can use either npm run journo [command] or journo [command] (if you used -g flag above) to execute commands below!

commands

• ✅ help - get list of commands
• ✅ set-data-folder /path/to/folder - set data folder for imports, ingests, and exports, will default to /data/ in project
• ✅ set-api-key [Notion API key] - to add and store an integration API key in .env file
• ✅ import-db [Notion Database URL] - to ingest pages from a Notion database
• ✅ import-page [Notion URL] - to ingest a Notion page
• ✅ import /path/to/text/file - to ingest a text or md file
• ✅ thoughts - dump all the ingested files into a list of thoughts, with some different organizational options
  • ✅ --abc (alphabetical), --regex (filter by regex), --sentences (split by sentences), --newlines (add newlines), --dedupe (skip dupes), --words (split by words), --random (randomize order)
• import-stats - get various stats on all imported content
• create-notion-db [Notion Page URL] - to create an export database at the given page (it will be nested at that page)
• export-csv /path/to/csv/file - to export to csv
• export-db [Notion Database URL] - to export to a Notion export database that matches the given URL
• set-db [Notion Page URL] - to set the default notion DB for exporting purposes
• trash - delete all imported content and saved databases

dev

• Run npm run dev to execute the program in developer mode, which means it'll auto-build on file edits and let you input commands more quickly.