Allow start and end times for journal entries

[jxfreeman]

Use Case/Motivation

When I am journaling, it would be nice to record the duration of the activity being journaled. For example, I journal meeting attendance and have a script which generates meeting journals in a standardized way to aid searching and presentation. I could add a duration to each journal entry however this would result in inconsistent placement of the duration in the entry and the formatting would vary widely. One of the great features of JRNL is idiomatic time and date ("wednesday" identifies the date of last Wednesday", etc. Idiomatic durations could be used to specify this. For example 1h, 10m, All day, etc. This is useful in identifying areas of work that are time consuming.

Example Usage

#> jrnl 13:00: Meeting with operations about bug 123 --duration 1:30
Alternatively
#> jrnl 13:00-14:30: Meeting with operations about bug 123

Yeilds:

#> jrnl -from today
2022-11-07 13:00-14:30 (1.5 hr) Meeting with operations about bug 123

Other Information

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[micahellison]

Hi @jxfreeman, thanks for filing this. This is definitely on the table, and we're considering it as part of the new file format.