J - A Hacker Journaling Companion written in Go

Just a friendly hacker companion

Usage

$ go install github.com/refs/j
$ j

that's it.

Gotchas

It currently supports only VIM.

Roadmap

• support for version control
• support encrypted entries
• configuration

User Journey v0

1. $ j
2. j creates a file in J/HOME and opens the user editor (if no editor is provided in config)
3. start journaling
4. when saving the file, j commits it to your configured repository (if any)

One of the premises is that editing will only happen for the current entry, this tool will not update older entries.

Features

• throw in some encryption to your pages

• add some configuration

  • home folder

  • version control

  • distributed storage (integration with distributed database?)

  • editor config option

  • github integration

  • extract H1 from file and append it to the filename

    • credentials, authentication...
    • git lib: https://github.com/src-d/go-git

  • if there is already a file with today's date, start the editor in append mode

  • while listing files, dynamically select one for opening

  • make template contents configurable

  • query entries

• bootstrap (rails like)

• configurable file structure