today is a simple and customizable tool for creating daily notes in your terminal, using your preferred text editor.
curl -o ~/.today.conf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alabhyajindal/today/main/.today.conf
curl -o /usr/local/bin/today https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alabhyajindal/today/main/today
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/today
By default today will create and use the directory ~/Documents/Journal/ for your daily notes, but you could use or create another directory and specify it in ~/.today.conf.
To create and open today's daily note in your terminal, use the command today. Your default text editor, as indicated by the environment variable $EDITOR, will be used. If $EDITOR is unset, vim will be used. Your note will be stored in a directory named after the current month and year (e.g., 'November 2023'). Simply run today again to reopen your daily note.