klog

A minimal script for keeping timestamped notes. The name "klog" is short for "work log." The format is inspired by Brett Terpstra's doing tool, which outputs in Taskpaper format. My use is slightly different, and I don't need the Taskpaper-ness, but I do appreciate that it renders nicely in Markdown.

The klog entry format is such that each line begins with a timestamp. This means you can have multiple clients write to the file in any order because it is trivial to sort the file.

Usage

Writing

./k↩️
<Note here>↩️

This will append a line to ~/klog.md in the format:

- <timestamp> | <Note here>

For example,

- `2016-06-12 17:42:02` | Hello world! This is a really simply logger.

You can change the location of your klog by setting the environment variable KLOG_FILE.

Reading

See today's log

grep `date +%F` $KLOG_FILE

See yesterday's log

grep `date -r $((\`date +%s\` - 86400)) '+%F'` $KLOG_FILE