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# Advanced Usage
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## Configuration File
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You can configure the way jrnl behaves in a configuration file. By
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default, this is `~/.config/jrnl/jrnl.yaml`. If you have the `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`
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variable set, the configuration file will be saved as
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`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/jrnl/jrnl.yaml`.
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!!! note
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On Windows, the configuration file is typically found at `%USERPROFILE%\.config\jrnl\jrnl.yaml`.
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The configuration file is a YAML file with the following options
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and can be edited with a plain text editor.
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!!! note
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Backup your journal and config file before editing. Changes to the config file
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can have destructive effects on your journal!
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- `journals`
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paths to your journal files
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- `editor`
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if set, executes this command to launch an external editor for
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writing your entries, e.g. `vim`. Some editors require special
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options to work properly, see `FAQ <recipes>` for details.
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- `encrypt`
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if `true`, encrypts your journal using AES.
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- `tagsymbols`
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Symbols to be interpreted as tags. (See note below)
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- `default_hour` and `default_minute`
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if you supply a date, such as `last thursday`, but no specific
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time, the entry will be created at this time
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- `timeformat`
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how to format the timestamps in your journal, see the [python docs](http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strftime) for reference
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- `highlight`
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if `true`, tags will be highlighted in cyan.
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- `linewrap`
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controls the width of the output. Set to `false` if you don't want to wrap long lines.
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- `colors`
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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.
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!!! note
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Although it seems intuitive to use the `#`
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character for tags, there's a drawback: on most shells, this is
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interpreted as a meta-character starting a comment. This means that if
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you type
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> `jrnl Implemented endless scrolling on the #frontend of our website.`
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your bash will chop off everything after the `#` before passing it to
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`jrnl`. To avoid this, wrap your input into quotation marks like
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this:
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> `jrnl "Implemented endless scrolling on the #frontend of our website."`
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Or use the built-in prompt or an external editor to compose your
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entries.
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## Multiple journal files
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You can configure `jrnl`to use with multiple journals (eg.
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`private` and `work`) by defining more journals in your `jrnl.yaml`,
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for example:
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``` yaml
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journals:
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default: ~\journal.txt
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work: ~\work.txt
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```
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The `default` journal gets created the first time you start `jrnl`
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Now you can access the `work` journal by using `jrnl work` instead of
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`jrnl`, eg.
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``` sh
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jrnl work at 10am: Meeting with @Steve
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jrnl work -n 3
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```
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will both use `~/work.txt`, while `jrnl -n 3` will display the last
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three entries from `~/journal.txt` (and so does `jrnl default -n 3`).
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You can also override the default options for each individual journal.
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If your `jrnl.yaml` looks like this:
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``` yaml
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encrypt: false
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journals:
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default: ~/journal.txt
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work:
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journal: ~/work.txt
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encrypt: true
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food: ~/my_recipes.txt
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```
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Your `default` and your `food` journals won't be encrypted, however your
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`work` journal will! You can override all options that are present at
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the top level of `jrnl.yaml`, just make sure that at the very least
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you specify a `journal: ...` key that points to the journal file of
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that journal.
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!!! note
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Changing `encrypt` to a different value will not encrypt or decrypt your
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journal file, it merely says whether or not your journal
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is encrypted. Hence manually changing
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this option will most likely result in your journal file being
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impossible to load.
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## Known Issues
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### Unicode on Windows
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The Windows shell prior to Windows 7 has issues with unicode encoding.
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To use non-ascii characters, first tweak Python to recognize the encoding by adding `'cp65001': 'utf_8'`, to `Lib/encoding/aliases.py`. Then, change the codepage with `chcp 1252` before using `jrnl`.
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(Related issue: [#486](https://github.com/jrnl-org/jrnl/issues/486))
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