Sal's

TSJ FTW

I've been two-sentence journaling for a bit now, and I'm digging it. I first heard the idea from Alexander in his post, Allow me to introduce the two-sentence journal (which is also where I discovered Thousand Year Old Vampire):

What I needed was a method that would make journaling feasible while still producing a text I'd enjoy reading.

As Alexander suggests, a two-sentence journal entry is not only feasible to write, it's also easy and fun to read. You win on both sides. In less than a minute, I can open my daily note, write the entry, and close back out. And I can peruse entries just as quickly with my tsj script, which searches my daily notes for the #TSJ tag, which I add to every entry.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Review my two-sentence journal entries.
#

set -e
set -u
set -o pipefail

cd $NOTES_PATH/Journal

rg "#TSJ" --pretty --no-line-number --sortr=path | less -R

Thanks for the great idea, Alexander!

#journaling