Maybe this is just a lack of experience with the org-journal package, but I don't seem to be able to use major mode bindings when writing an entry. Also, are there settings/variables that are easily changeable, such as the name of diaries that are created? Or is most of the configuration just found in the layer?

The diary entry appears to be created in org mode, but doesn't have a .org extension.

Again these are more generic questions, that may be answered in the original org-journal package.

It seems like org-mode's major map doesn't include the j prefix, which causes the major mode keybindings to not work. Adding the appropriate prefix fixes this for me. If it's as simple as that, and not some configuration bug / error on my end, I can make a PR with the change.

If your using the develop branch in spacemacs you can enable org-journal and configure it:

Docs: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/tree/develop/layers/%2Bemacs/org#org-journal-support

When I enable the journal layer the nice bullets stop working in org mode, when I remove the layer they come back. I checked the messages buffer for some leads but found nothing that stands out.

Please let me know if you need anything to troubleshoot the issue.

Hey,

I did the installation steps:

1. git clone https://github.com/borgnix/spacemacs-journal.git ~/.emacs.d/private/journal
2. add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to add journal to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.

However, I am not able able to get the global keybindings i.e. SPC a j is undefined. I have done SPC f d R as well as restarted the spacemacs, but to no avail.

Thanks @borgnix for creating this! I have had trouble installing it.

1. Should it be installed as follows? ~/.emacs.d/private/spacemacs-journal ?
2. When I added journal to my DOT file, spacemacs did not seem to recognize it.

Are there other caveats or layers that could affect the installation?

Thanks.