diff --git a/docs/advanced.md b/docs/advanced.md
index 67d5553c..3a0172e7 100644
--- a/docs/advanced.md
+++ b/docs/advanced.md
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ and can be edited with a plain text editor.
     controls the width of the output. Set to `false` if you don't want to wrap long lines.
   - `colors`
     dictionary that controls the colors used to display journal entries. It has four subkeys, which are: `body`, `date`, `tags`, and `title`. Current valid values are: `BLACK`, `RED`, `GREEN`, `YELLOW`, `BLUE`, `MAGENTA`, `CYAN`, `WHITE`, and `NONE`. `colorama.Fore` is used for colorization, and you can find the [docs here](https://github.com/tartley/colorama#colored-output). To disable colored output, set the value to `NONE`. If you set the value of any color subkey to an invalid color, no color will be used.
+  - `display_format`
+    specifies formatter to use, formatters available are: 
+    `boxed`, `fancy`, `json`, `markdown`, `md`, `tags`, `text`, `txt`, `xml`, or `yaml`.
 
 !!! note
     Although it seems intuitive to use the `#`
diff --git a/jrnl/Journal.py b/jrnl/Journal.py
index a6bf35d0..2028666b 100644
--- a/jrnl/Journal.py
+++ b/jrnl/Journal.py
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ class Journal:
             "highlight": True,
             "linewrap": 80,
             "indent_character": "|",
+            "display_format": "text",
         }
         self.config.update(kwargs)
         # Set up date parser
diff --git a/jrnl/install.py b/jrnl/install.py
index 5f5f0032..8347d27c 100644
--- a/jrnl/install.py
+++ b/jrnl/install.py
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ default_config = {
     "linewrap": 79,
     "indent_character": "|",
     "colors": {"date": "none", "title": "none", "body": "none", "tags": "none",},
+    "display_format": "text",
 }
 
 
diff --git a/jrnl/jrnl.py b/jrnl/jrnl.py
index 33eabdd0..97886928 100644
--- a/jrnl/jrnl.py
+++ b/jrnl/jrnl.py
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ def _delete_search_results(journal, old_entries, **kwargs):
         journal.write()
 
 
-def _display_search_results(args, journal, **kwargs):
+def _display_search_results(args, journal, config, **kwargs):
     if args.short:
         print(journal.pprint(short=True))
 
@@ -300,7 +300,8 @@ def _display_search_results(args, journal, **kwargs):
     elif args.export:
         exporter = plugins.get_exporter(args.export)
         print(exporter.export(journal, args.filename))
-
     else:
-        # Default display mode
-        print(journal.pprint())
+        # Display according display_format config option
+        config_selected = config.get("display_format", journal.config["display_format"])
+        exporter = plugins.get_exporter(config_selected)
+        print(exporter.export(journal, args.filename))