Keep track of what you're doing when you do it and forget trying to write summaries at EOD. DayLog1 is a dead-simple tool for terminal enthusiasts for taking quick notes throughout your day. It helps you quickly edit date-stamped markdown files where you can take notes about what you're doing, or leave a note in tomorrow's log for your future self.
brew tap notnmeyer/daylog-cli
brew install daylog
Grab a release directly from the releases page
go build -o ~/bin/daylog main.go, substituting ~/bin/daylog for a different path if you prefer.
To write or edit today's log, run daylog and today's log will be opened in $EDITOR.
To view today's log, run daylog show.
To interact with a past or future log supply a date (daylog show -- 2023/01/07), or a more casual realtive reference, "tomorrow", "yesterday", "1 day ago", etc.
You can append a quick one-line entry without opening an editor with -a/--append, daylog -a "ate a burrito" (this appends - ate a burrito to today's log). It accepts the usual date references too, daylog -a "ate a burrito" -- yesterday.
You can pipe updates as well, echo "- ate a burrito" | daylog.
For other commands and options see, daylog --help.
daylog tui opens an interactive terminal UI for browsing and editing your logs. It lands on a ledger of every day, newest first, with a preview of each. From there you can:
↑/↓move,enterto open a dayaappend a one-line entry,eopen the day in$EDITOR,ycopy the log/filter by date or text (searches log contents),nstart a new day from a datettoggle todos,pswitch projects,?for full help,qto quit
Add -p <project> to open a specific project.
Logs are stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME/daylog. Use daylog info to print the exact directory.
Footnotes
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