FAQ

Recipes

Co-occurrence of tags

If I want to find out how often I mentioned my flatmates Alberto and Melo in the same entry, I run

jrnl @alberto --tags | grep @melo

And will get something like @melo: 9, meaning there are 9 entries where both @alberto and @melo are tagged. How does this work? First, jrnl @alberto will filter the journal to only entries containing the tag @alberto, and then the --tags option will print out how often each tag occurred in this filtered journal. Finally, we pipe this to grep which will only display the line containing @melo.

Combining filters

You can do things like

jrnl @fixed -starred -n 10 -until "jan 2013" --short

To get a short summary of the 10 most recent, favourited entries before January 1, 2013 that are tagged with @fixed.

Known Issues

• The Windows shell prior to Windows 7 has issues with unicode encoding. If you want to use non-ascii characters, change the codepage with chcp 1252 before using jrnl (Thanks to Yves Pouplard for solving this!)
• _jrnl_ relies on the PyCrypto package to encrypt journals, which has some known problems with installing on Windows and within virtual environments.