I noticed this code doesn't have a license associated with it. A lot of people won't contribute to a project unless it's clear what the license is. Also, without a license, nobody else is technically allowed to use, improve, or redistribute this code, so you should specify a license if that's not what you intended. You can take a look at http://choosealicense.com/ if you haven't thought about what license you'd like to use.

Anyway, thanks a lot for making this and (hopefully) making it free software.

Most markdown parses include YAML frontmatter, which jour uses for tags:

---
tags: work, tea
---

Today I worked on code stuff while drinking tea...

jour ls then prints this as

2017.05.02 : work, tea

which is nice. It would be great though if jour automatically put the YAML frontmatter in the $EDITOR buffer when I started writing a new journal entry.

https://github.com/bsima/jour/blob/master/jour#L161

Prints the same message even if you're asking for an older date. Probably should check the date and if it's not today say something like "No journal entry found for {}".format(args.date)

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/jour", line 46, in <module> raise NotADirectoryError("{0} does not exist.".format(journal_dir)) NotADirectoryError: /Users/Ryan/journal does not exist.

Made one myself, but would be cool if install went ahead and did it on its own.

Also: found this on Lobsters!

Small world!

Hope you're doing well.

I'm imagining something like this:

$ jour stats
Average words per entry: 362
Frequency of entries: 2.4 per week
Most common tags: tag1, tag2, tag3

Maybe a more table-like layout would be better. I'm not sure.

The other question is: do I even want to add a stats feature to this? Maybe that is better suited as an exercise for the user? With a sufficiently large journal, these stats calculations will take a lot of time to run. And I definitely don't want to start requiring numpy etc for this simple script.