18 - Journal Helper¶

I've made a script that creates a new file for this website journal, with the correct date set up and ready for me to type away.

odonnellrorynew() {
  local repo="$HOME/Omni/Basilica/odonnellrory.github.io"
  local dir="$repo/docs/00-journal"
  local date_str file

  if [[ -n "${1:-}" ]]; then
    case "$1" in
      yesterday) date_str="$(date -d 'yesterday' +%F)" ;;
      tomorrow)  date_str="$(date -d 'tomorrow'  +%F)" ;;
      # YYYY-MM-DD
      [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]) date_str="$1" ;;
      *)
        print -u2 "journal: pass YYYY-MM-DD, 'yesterday', or 'tomorrow'"
        return 2
        ;;
    esac
  else
    date_str="$(date +%F)"
  fi

  mkdir -p -- "$dir"
  file="$dir/$date_str.md"

  # Create a simple header if it's a new file
  if [[ ! -e "$file" ]]; then
    {
      printf '# %s\n\n' "$(date -d "$date_str" +%Y/%m/%d)"
    } > "$file"
  fi

  cd -- "$repo" || return
  nvim -- "$file"
}

It's pretty good.

It can make them for the day before as well by adding "yesterday" to the command.

Now I go into Gnome keyboard shortcuts and make a shortcut, Alt+R, to do alacritty -e zsh -ic odonnellrorynew

And voila. Alt+R creates and opens the latest journal entry for my website, so I can edit it at any time.