Daily streak report (maybe heatmap)

[alichtman]

It'd be cool to be able to see how often you're journaling. Extracted from #591.

I'm thinking that the calendar heatmap option in termgraph.py is a good choice.

[eshrh]

I'm interested in attempting to implement this. What would be a good way to invoke the heatmap?
I was thinking something like jrnl --calendar just like how termgraph does it.

Termgraph renders the calendar by density of entries on a day of the week cumulatively for the entire month, would this really be the best idea when a user just wants to see how many days in the past week they've written something?

Termgraph is very convenient because it's easy to just copy the single file into the project. It's ideal but harder to hack together some system to generate data in a form that can be easily fed to calendar_heatmap() but this seems pretty difficult from what I've tried(not much). The easiest solution would be to create a file that termgraph can read(just lines of yyyy-mm-dd,number) and then call main which would do all the label-generation, data formatting and normalization automatically. Of course, this adds an extra file, and I'm not sure if this is desirable(where would the file be stored anyway?)

I haven't looked into how to count entries yet, but I assume that it should be fairly straightforward given that functions like reading from and until a certain date work. Streak calculation is also easy once the distribution of entries can be obtained.

[wren]

@eshrh Thanks for volunteering to work on a feature! I think this should be an exporter plugin (much like our current markdown, json, yaml, etc exporters). These are run by something along the lines of jrnl --export markdown and you can see examples of how to implement them in the jrnl/plugins directory in the repo.

Let us know if you have more questions along your way to work on this.

[UtahDave]

@eshrh I thought that was an interesting idea. Maybe this only needs to be added as a recipe in the documentation. What do you think of this?

jrnl --short | awk '{print $1 " 1"}' | termgraph --calendar

     Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
Mon:
Tue:
Wed:
Thu:                                                  █
Fri:       █
Sat:
Sun:                                                 █

[alichtman]

If they are using colorized titles and dates, they'll need this:

$ jrnl --short | awk '{print $1 " 1"}' | cut -c 10- | termgraph --calendar

This is a good suggestion, I think. I'm in favor of keeping this as a recipe (provided that we can get a real heatmap instead of a binary "jrnl / no jrnl" indicator).

[UtahDave]

@alichtman I need to create a longer history, but I chose 1 as the output because if we have multiple entries on a specific day, like a Friday, then the heatmap should heat up more. I believe that's how termgraph works

[alichtman]

I tested that and wasn't able to get a real heatmap out of it. It's possible that termgraph doesn't support this but I haven't had time to look into it yet.

[marylein]

jrnl --short | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{printf("%s %s\n", $2, $1)} | termgraph --calendar

this works for me to really show the "heat" on each day.

[alichtman]

$ jrnl --short | awk '{print $1}' | cut -c 10- | sort | uniq -c | awk '{printf("%s %s\n", $2, $1)}' | termgraph --calendar

This is the version that works if you're using colored titles. Nice work, @marylein.

[wren]

I think these all are promising, but have the downside of only working with certain date formats (since the date customizable in the config file). Why don't we implement a general export (like the tags) of dates and counts that can be piped to termgraph to get a heatmap? It might look something like jrnl --export datecount | termgraph.

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[alichtman]

Bump.