Journaling with Terminal and Plaintext Files
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The post discusses using terminal and plaintext files for journaling, with a commenter sharing a similar approach using emacs.
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OhMeadhbh
4 months ago
Cool. I do something similar, but with emacs and Quiet Type text conventions. I put my notes in one directory and use grep to search old notes. But +1 on the idea of using text files to store... text.
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