A super awesome way of writing daily blog posts with Jekyll.

It’s like ‘git commit` but for real life.

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It’s based on this proof of concept, built with bash: github.com/lorentrogers/Journal.sh

First, you’ll need to grab the gem:

gem install jekylljournal

Then, configure your installation. Make a new file in your home directory called ‘.jekylljournal.yaml` and fill in the options below.

:blog_location: /path/to/your/jekyll/blog/root

It’s super handy to map an alias to this app. My configuration just uses ‘j` to open up my daily journal.

Here’s what’s in my ‘.zshrc` file:

alias j="jekylljournal"

Once you’ve installed it, and set up your config file, you’re ready to go:

j

Boom.

You should have Vim open to today’s post.

Once you’ve finished, save the file and close it. Then you can save the journal to git:

j s

Or preview it if you like:

j p

Now you can browse to

localhost:4000

and check out your post.

Contributions are very welcome. Have a look at ‘CONTRIBUTING.md` for details.

Gem on Rubygems: rubygems.org/gems/jekylljournal

Bug tracking on Github: github.com/lorentrogers/jekylljournal/issues

Source on Github: github.com/lorentrogers/jekylljournal

Features are written as Job Stories: robots.thoughtbot.com/converting-to-jobs-stories

This project uses GPL: gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

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