Keep track of what you're doing when you do it and forget trying to write summaries at EOD. DayLog1 is a dead-simple tool for terminal enthusiasts for taking quick notes throughout your day. It helps you quickly edit date-stamped markdown files where you can take notes about what you're doing, or leave a note in tomorrow's log for your future self.
brew tap notnmeyer/daylog-cli
brew install daylog
Grab a release directly from the releases page
go build -o ~/bin/daylog main.go, substituting ~/bin/daylog for a different path if you prefer.
To write or edit today's log, run daylog and today's log will be opened in $EDITOR.
To view today's log, run daylog show.
To interact with a past or future log supply a date (daylog show -- 2023/01/07), or a more casual realtive reference, "tomorrow", "yesterday", "1 day ago", etc.
You can pipe updates as well, echo "- ate a burrito" | daylog.
For other commands and options see, daylog --help.
Logs are stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME/daylog. Use daylog info to print the exact directory.
Footnotes
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DayLog ah ahh ahhhhhh, fighter of the night log ah ahh ahhhhh.
DayyyyyyyyyyLLooooooooog!