Plain Text Journal

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Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 20, 2015 at 10:02 PM

Not sure if this one was mentioned before:

https://github.com/maciakl/Plain-Text-Journal

Posted by jaslar
Apr 21, 2015 at 04:10 PM

Interesting project and product. As a long time keeper of journals, I think the one thing I DO need and use (if not tags and cross-linking) is a powerful SEARCH tool. Am I correct in thinking this product does NOT offer that? Or have you tried it?

Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 21, 2015 at 08:56 PM

jaslar wrote:
>the one thing I DO need and use (if not tags and cross-linking) is
>a powerful SEARCH tool. Am I correct in thinking this product does NOT
>offer that? Or have you tried it?

No, I haven’t tried it. But it says that the plain text files would be saved externally at C:\Users\Username\Documents\My Journal\ , so you could just use an external search program (e.g. Filesearchy) to search the files’ contents within that single folder.

If you want even more ways to search, analyse and recombine diary data, I can certainly recommend CT for creating a dedicated journal database using its so-called “date topics.”

Then you can do all kinds of fancy stuff like aggregating daily entries into weekly, monthly, and annual ones, or aggregating all the Mondays in a week, month etc. One can discover some very interesting patterns when you do such comparisons (such as which days you tend to be the most and least productive, or when do you tend to catch a cold in the year, and so on).

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