My gournal

I’ve bounced off jrnl a few times. While I like its simplicity, most of my past journaling is sitting in my Obsidian vault, and jrnl isn’t quite on Obsidian’s wavelength. It uses @tags instead of #tags, for example.

Meanwhile, I’ve been wanting a nicer way to browse those old journal entries. Something better than just scrolling through a massive list of files.

I realized this is a great use case for vibe coding, so now I have my gournal.¹

To start a new entry, which will create a new Obsidian daily note and open it in $EDITOR:

gournal new Here's the title of my entry

To peruse my entries:

# list everything
gournal

# filter by tag (with fish-shell autocompletion!)
gournal -t career

# randomize
gournal -random

# on this day
gournal -ott

Each of those commands pipes the resulting list of entries through my beloved fzf, using its preview feature to show the selected entry on the side, and using glow to render the markdown.

Here’s an example of gournal -t emacs (please excuse the inanity):

Fun stuff.