Journal is a simple Sublime Text plugin that makes it easy to create Journal files for logs, notes, diary, daybooks.... . These files are saved in single location for easy searching and access later. The files are structured hierachical by date (year\month\day\yyyymmdd.extension ). Due to the file naming convention (yyyymmdd) you can - for example - sort the file names by asc and generate a date-ordered summary file.

1. In Sublime Text Go to Open today's Journal File Ctrl+Shift+Alt+J
2. A new file is opened. The file is named "yyyymmdd.extension". yyyymmdd is evaluated by current date. extension is a user-configurable extension. (e.g. .md for markdown)

Example
File > Open today's Journal File Ctrl+Shift+Alt+J to open "[journalroot]\2020\05\20200501.md". Save the file.

3. You can insert an Timestamp into the open text file per STRG+SHIFT+ALT+F12 / STRG+SHIFT+SUPER+F12(Mac) so you can structure your dayfile.

By default the journalroot will points to ~/Documents/Journal. The default extension is .md. You can change these settings using the following options in your package settings:

{
    "save_path": "~/Documents/Journal",
    //"save_path": "~/Foo/Bar/Diary/${file_base_name}",
    //"save_path": "${folder}\\journal",
    //"save_path": "${project_path}\\journal",
    //"save_path": "xyz",
    "extension" : ".md",
    "use_dayfolder" : "false"
}

You can set use_dayfolder to "true" to create a folder for each single dayfile. The default setting groups the dayfiles into the matching month directory.

• The folder structure is created automatically.

• Folders starting with ~ are resolved to the user home directory.

• The save_path can contain variables. See https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/api_reference.html#sublime.Window extract_variables() to find the available variable names. These variable-names has to be enclosed in ${...} Refer https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/build_systems.html#variables to find a short description for the listed variable names.

• A simple string value (e.g. "xyz") set the journal directory to ~/Documents/xyz