Jrnl is a Go based journal for the command line. It's inspired by the fantastic python tool of the same name; jrnl. It stores the entries in a database using BoltDB in the user home directory, and has no external dependencies.

Simply put the binary on your path and away you go!

Using Jrnl is easy. First, use go get to install the latest version of the application. This command will install the executable along with the library and its dependencies:

$ go get -u github.com/willis7/jrnl

$ jrnl
jrnl is a CLI journal manager

Usage:
  jrnl [command]

Available Commands:
  add         Adds an entry in your journal,
  export      Export a formatted journal
  help        Help about any command
  list        Lists all of your entries.
  remove      Removes a journal entry.

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for jrnl

Use "jrnl [command] --help" for more information about a command.

list returns the full list of entries

$ jrnl list
Here's your jrnl entries:
1. 2018-04-01 Easter

add today is a shorthand way of adding an entry for today. yesterday works too.

$ jrnl add today
Enter text: Easter Day
created; 1. 2018-04-01 Easter Day

add <date> takes a date layout as yyyy-mm-dd.

$ jrnl add 2018-04-01
Enter text: Easter Day
created; 1. 2018-04-01 Easter Day

• Jrnl is inspired by the fantastic python tool of the same name jrnl.
• Jon Calhoun follwing his exericse building CLI's

• implement date keywords to add command (such as today, yesterday).
• improve domain model to include time
• test coverage