No matter what command I run with jrnl I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/jrnl", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('jrnl==1.0.2', 'console_scripts', 'jrnl')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 343, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2309, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2015, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jrnl/__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
    from Journal import Journal
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jrnl/Journal.py", line 6, in <module>
    import parsedatetime.parsedatetime as pdt
ImportError: No module named parsedatetime.parsedatetime

I'm using the latest version of Arch Linux along with the E17 desktop environment. The latest version of it.

pycrypto doesn't play well in virtual environments and is potentially not fully platform-agnostic, so maybe it'd be wise to make it a recommended package to allow jrnl to work with unencrypted journals without the package.

at least when text for new entry is directly given as a new parameter

example:
jrnl text mit übergeilem Inhalt

does not work. the argpase splits the input at the ü

parsedatetime supports German, Spanish and Australian (?) locales - these could be used with a config.locale parameter

After manually installing from a git clone I received the following error after specifying my journal location.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/jrnl", line 8, in <module>
load_entry_point('jrnl==1.0.1', 'console_scripts', 'jrnl')()
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.8-intel/egg/jrnl/jrnl.py", line 165, in cli
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.8-intel/egg/jrnl/Journal.py", line 50, in __init__
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.8-intel/egg/jrnl/Journal.py", line 137, in parse
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'body'

@maebert
As the title dictates. I want to use this wonderful little app on Arch Linux. I can't find a wiki entry for it, nor a package for it in the AUR.

Could it be possible you also offer a .tar.gz file? Or that you add it as an entry to the AUR packages?

Would really love to use this on Arch Linux or Linux in general. 😉

otherwise you see this long tail of tags you used once

jrnl @Pinkie #WorldDomination

this does not work even when I have entries containing #WorldDomination

I think the reason is the argparse module. It filters out stuff which does not look like an argument.

some of my entries were created via the editor and contain blank lines for formatting. They are still in the text file but lost when output printed on commandline (e.g. via tag search). There should be an option to show the entry with the original formatting.

But we should also keep in mind not to introduce to many options. And the default option should always be the most intuitive and mostly used option

pip install worked fine but running jrnl gave me this error:

C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\nvpy>jrnl                                                       
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                            
  File "C:\Python27\Scripts\jrnl-script.py", line 9, in <module>                              
    load_entry_point('jrnl==1.0.1', 'console_scripts', 'jrnl')()                              
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\distribute-0.6.35-py2.7.egg\pkg_resources.py", line 343,
 in load_entry_point                                                                          
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)                               
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\distribute-0.6.35-py2.7.egg\pkg_resources.py", line 2309
, in load_entry_point                                                                         
    return ep.load()                                                                          
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\distribute-0.6.35-py2.7.egg\pkg_resources.py", line 2015
, in load                                                                                     
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])                   
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\jrnl\__init__.py", line 4, in <module>                  
    from Journal import Journal                                                               
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\jrnl\Journal.py", line 13, in <module>                  
    import readline, glob                                                                     
ImportError: No module named readline                                                         

Googling around eventually found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6024952/readline-functionality-on-windows-with-python-2-7

Then: pip install pyreadline allowed me to run jrnl without modifying any jrnl code.

Installing collected packages: pyreadline                                                     
  Running setup.py install for pyreadline                                                     
    package init file 'pyreadline\configuration\__init__.py' not found (or not a regular file)


Successfully installed pyreadline                                                             
Cleaning up...                                                                                

C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\nvpy>jrnl                                                       
Path to your journal file (leave blank for ~/journal.txt):                                    

I have a private diary and then often a labbook of a project I am working on. Sometimes several at the same time. It would be nice to tell jrnl on the commandline in which file I want to write. e.g.

jrnl lab

or

jrnl private

one could be set as default

to implement this we need the possibility to create a new file, delete one, set the default. etc..
should we provide commandline parameters to do this or should it be done by editing the config.json and we just document how this could be done?

As the code gets longer and longer, we might split everything into smaller chunks. Proposed structrure

- LICENSE, README, CHANGELOG
- setup.py
- jrnl.py (only contains what is now in __main__)
+ jrnl
  - Journal.py (contains the Journal class)
  - Entry.py
  - config.py (contains the setup() routine)
  - jrnl_test.py

Objections / considerations?

When I add an entry via the editor in a format like

a very nice day

@diary @day @trip

just came home and write ...

then a tag '@tripjust' is shown when looking at the tags via

jrnl --tags

i get an error installing jrnl on debian 6/python 2.6 (the same if using pip or git:

Extracting jrnl-1.0.3-py2.6.egg to /home/finkregh/.env/lib/python2.6/site-packages
SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax', ('/home/finkregh/.env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jrnl-1.0.3-py2.6.egg/jrnl/jrnl.py', 108, 48, '        tag_counts = {(tags.count(tag), tag) for tag in tags}\n'))

or on starting:

$ jrnl
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/finkregh/.env/bin/jrnl", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('jrnl==1.0.3', 'console_scripts', 'jrnl')()
  File "/home/finkregh/.env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.10-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 299, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/home/finkregh/.env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.10-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2229, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/home/finkregh/.env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.10-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1948, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
  File "/home/finkregh/.env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jrnl-1.0.3-py2.6.egg/jrnl/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    from jrnl import cli
  File "/home/finkregh/.env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jrnl-1.0.3-py2.6.egg/jrnl/jrnl.py", line 108
    tag_counts = {(tags.count(tag), tag) for tag in tags}
                                           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

so i suppose there should be a check/dependency for python >2.6 somewhere...

add an option to the config dictionary where one can set his favorite editor.

• It is much nicer to write in an editor
• input is not restricted to one line

see discussion in #26

Not sure what the best practise regarding line separators is, though - should we use the system's default, or check what newline sequence the journal file uses and use that one for writing as well (ie. if the journal was created on Windows, use CR+LF even os.linesep is LF on *nix?

example

jrnl ma "@reading the @paper of schmucker 2007"

add an option to jrnl to list all tags that were ever used. maye even with the number of how often they have been used, sorted in a way that the most frequently used tag appears first.

I want @paper or @papers be the same. In the statistics and also in search.

this could either be defined in a separate file or much nice throuh just using them. Once you write somewhere @paper=@papers we will always use this identity. Nothing complicated needed, no new interface introduced, but when people know about it they can use it easily

Pulled the latest version and tried the pip version,
I get an error on startup. Here's the trace:

Path to your journal file (leave blank for ~/journal.txt):
Enter password for journal (leave blank for no encryption):
clint not found. To turn on highlighting, install clint and set highlight to true in your .jrnl_conf.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/jrnl", line 9, in
load_entry_point('jrnl==1.0.0', 'console_scripts', 'jrnl')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jrnl-1.0.0-py2.7.egg/jrnl/jrnl.py", line 165, in cli
journal = Journal.Journal(**config)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jrnl-1.0.0-py2.7.egg/jrnl/Journal.py", line 44, in init
consts = pdt.Constants()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/parsedatetime/init.py", line 1733, in init
self.locale = pdtLocales'icu'
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/parsedatetime/pdt_locales.py", line 151, in init
self.icu = pyicu.Locale(localeID)
icu.InvalidArgsError: (<type 'icu.Locale'>, 'init', (None,))

Eg. May 16, entered on May 18 2012, will get May 16, 2013 instead of 2012. Default should always be past dates. The proper way to solve this may be a patch to parsedatetime rather than jrnl itself, though.

Running OS X 10.8.3 and got the following message after attempting to run for the first time:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/jrnl", line 5, in
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 2603, in
working_set.require(requires)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 666, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 565, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req) # XXX put more info here
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: pycrypto>=2.6

Hi. jrnl is a beautiful thing! I am French, still using Windows XP, where Windows encoding is either Windows-1252 (in graphic mode) or OEM-863 (in old Dos console).

I also have Cygwin on my PC, but jrnl doesn't work with Cygwin's python 2.6.7, so I try to use it from Windows console, where I have ActivePython 2.7.2.5 running.

Trouble comes with special chars of French language: for example, I type 'à' in Dos console, get a 'à' in journal.txt (with is encoded in ANSI, as Notepad++ tells me), but that's a 'Ó' which displays back in looking at the journal. It seems like encoding was fine, but decoding was wrong, like writing in ANSI but reading in UTF-8. Or am I wrong?

Best regards,

Yves Pouplard

PS: some French, sample text:

2012-05-21 16:06 Ceci, celà, et ceci encore.
Amongst beaucoup, beaucoup d'autres choses !!!

2012-05-21 16:10 With some French, special chars.
From my azerty, French keyboard: éèçàù âêûîô äëÿüïö. §%$£¤~#.

To convert an encrypted journal to a decrypted one (and vice versa),

jrnl --encrypt

should read the journal, encrypt it (asking for a password), save it and change ~/.jrnl_conf so that config['encrypt'] = true.

Hi,
(BTW, really enjoy using jrnl.)

I was wondering if there was some way of adding carriage returns as part of an entry, like if I wanted a list or just a new paragraph. I had 2 ideas of how to do this:

1. interpret a "\n" or some other character as a carriage return
2. Give a command line option (like -a) on a new entry that would append it to the previous entry in the file.

Thanks!

On the http://maebert.github.io/jrnl/ page, under the Usage heading, there is a spelling error. The first line of that section reads

jrnl has to modes: composing and viewing.

but it should read

jrnl has two modes: composing and viewing.

(Sorry for being such a pedant, but it jumped out at me.)

I am planning to add support for Jekyll and Letterpress blogs.

Will implement it the way DayOne journals are taken care of.

Any suggestions of any kind?

jrnl --decrypt plain.txt

Should leave the encrypted journal (and .jrnl_config) untouched and create a new file plain.txt with the decrypted version. Analogously for jrnl --encrypt cipher.txt

Currently the output is formatted for maximising your viewing pleasure on your shell, but Markdown export could render the Journal like this

Year
====

Month
-----

### Date, Title

Entry

### Date, Title

Entry

...

Mac with homebrew installed and shipped with python 2.7.2. jrnl can be installed from repository just fine, or through pip. No matter which way I try, I always get the following error:

cmd# jrnl 

Path to your journal file (leave blank for ~/journal.txt): 
Enter password for journal (leave blank for no encryption): 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/jrnl", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('jrnl==0.3.0', 'console_scripts', 'jrnl')()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/jrnl/jrnl.py", line 147, in cli
    journal = Journal.Journal(config=config)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/jrnl/Journal.py", line 39, in __init__
    self.entries = self.parse(journal_txt)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/jrnl/Journal.py", line 126, in parse
    current_entry.body += line + "\n"
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'body'

Since quite some time I use evernote to write down text and snippets. basically for what I now use jrnl for. But what I mainly used it for is organization of pictures, pdf, etc. some documents that I needed to tag and organize, maybe annotate. basic simple things which still cannot be done by the normal file system. I would like to use jrnl also for this. Here my ideas of how to achieve this..

• When you want to include a file, just paste its URL (local or on the web) in the entry you currently write. When finished writing and before the entry is added, jrnl will search the entered text for valid urls.
• jrnl will then ask you whether you want to included the referenced file in your jrnl, when answered with yes, copies of the files will be created (downloaded from the web or just locally copied) in a data folder next to the jrnl textfile (also in the dropbox)
• the urls could be kept in the text or written in the end of the jrnl entry.
• content could be nicely rendered in markdown export

If the journal file is corrupted or missing or whatever, you'll find out before loosing whatever you started to write.

DayOne stores it's entries in individual plist files, so importing should be relatively easy. Can anyone supply a plist file from DayOne?

If config.journal points to a folder, maybe use individual files for each entry?

It would be great if we could have the feature to split the exported file into multiple markdown files containing an entry each. These files can then be used for multiple blogging systems like Jekyll as well as Letterpress

I have installed jrnl with pip on my Archlinux. Then I tried to start it and get.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/jrnl", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('jrnl==1.0.1', 'console_scripts', 'jrnl')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 343, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2310, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2016, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/jrnl/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from Journal import Journal
ImportError: No module named 'Journal'

If journal file lives in a git repository, commit journal file and push current branch after saving.

Hi there,
I was looking into coding a program such as this one, thanks for your work.
However, I just lost one day of journal entries because one of the entry I added corrupted and deleted the whole journal.txt.
The character is a right single quotation mark. Ascii decimal code is 8217. I just tried with the sign € which has a similar code and same issue.

Here's my example:

jrnl You believe you’re right
[Entry added to default journal]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/jrnl", line 9, in
load_entry_point('jrnl==1.0.4', 'console_scripts', 'jrnl')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jrnl-1.0.4-py2.7.egg/jrnl/jrnl.py", line 197, in cli
journal.write()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jrnl-1.0.4-py2.7.egg/jrnl/Journal.py", line 190, in write
journal_file.write(journal)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 691, in write
return self.writer.write(data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 351, in write
data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 124: ordinal not in range(128)

After that, the journal is just empty. Everything's been deleted.
Any work around?
Thanks again
PS: This is my first time contributing/reporting an error in a program so I hope I am doing it right ;)

If an encrypted journal file is corrupted, either the password won't work, or we can't get a proper IV:

Traceback (most recent call last):
(...)
  File "/Users/maebert/code/jrnl/jrnl.py", line 118, in _decrypt
    plain = crypto.decrypt(cipher[16:])
ValueError: Input strings must be a multiple of 16 in length

In either case, suggest that the journal file is corrupted.

same behavior for search or display as normal. But when used with a -pretty flag the output will be nicely rendered to html and opened in your default browser. I think this is especially interesting with issue #37

Installed jrnl using pip on 10.8.3 today (20130419:14:30 EDT) (pip is up to date)

Please see errors, below.

Any thoughts?

Errors:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/jrnl", line 8, in
load_entry_point('jrnl==1.0.3', 'console_scripts', 'jrnl')()
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 318, in load_entry_point
return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 2221, in load_entry_point
return ep.load()
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 1959, in load
raise ImportError("%r has no %r attribute" % (entry,attr))
ImportError: <module 'jrnl' from '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/jrnl-1.0.3-py2.7.egg/jrnl/init.pyc'> has no 'cli' attribute

When an editor is configured, journal is started to compose a new entry but then the editor is closed without saving we receive an error message:

(jrnl)dedan@neuroinf37:~/projects/jrnl: jrnl
Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/Users/dedan/bin/jrnl", line 333, in <module>
    with open(tmpfile) as f:
    IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/folders/j7/t878w0453x1gdl69d6mrcpqr0000gn/T/jrnl'

this could be handled in a nicer way

If we get a nice representation in a browser (see #43), we could possibly make it interactive as well using flask - all run locally, with the beauty and simplicity of the web.

add option (or even make it default behaviour) that when searching for a tag it does not return all entries containing the tag, but only the line containing the tag (or the 20 words around).

Could we maybe even highlight the tag? in color? this should be possible on a terminal.

It seems that you're using AES in ECB mode. Now I'm really not a crypto expert, but word has it that ECB is not suitable for... well anything. See Wikipedia for example.

Another issue trying to install 56a9c0b this afternoon:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/jrnl", line 8, in
load_entry_point('jrnl==1.0.4', 'console_scripts', 'jrnl')()
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 318, in load_entry_point
return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 2221, in load_entry_point
return ep.load()
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 1954, in load
entry = import(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['name'])
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.8-intel/egg/jrnl/init.py", line 15, in
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.8-intel/egg/jrnl/Journal.py", line 15, in
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.8-intel/egg/readline.py", line 6, in
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.8-intel/egg/pyreadline/init.py", line 11, in
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.8-intel/egg/pyreadline/modes/init.py", line 3, in
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.8-intel/egg/pyreadline/modes/emacs.py", line 16, in
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.8-intel/egg/pyreadline/modes/basemode.py", line 14, in
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.8-intel/egg/pyreadline/keysyms/init.py", line 7, in
ImportError: cannot import name winconstants

Sorry if this is my lack of python/unix knowledge; just trying to get this to work. Thanks again for the help.

See http://docopt.org/

I noticed that jrnl doesn't have man pages despite being a Linux command line tool. Personally I think this is a big problem.

Are there any plans to implement this soon? Is there any way I could probably help?