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 Authors
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-This project is a fork of [jrnl](https://github.com/maebert/jrnl) by Manuel Ebert ([maebert](https://github.com/maebert)).
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 Current maintainers:
 
  * Jonathan Wren ([wren](https://github.com/wren))
  * Micah Ellison ([micahellison](https://github.com/micahellison))
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+Original maintainer: Manuel Ebert ([maebert](https://github.com/maebert)) (original repo: [jrnl](https://github.com/maebert/jrnl))
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