Re: Journal

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

On Thursday, September 03, 2020 06:50:36 AM Joe wrote:
> I've finally decided I have to keep a diary.
> 
> In Debian are RoboJournal and Lifeograph.
> 
> Neither of them actually function, at least in sid. Does anyone have any
> other ideas, apart from phpMyAdmin or Mysql Workbench?

I've seen the other responses, I just want to throw in my 20 mils: 

I use (to oversimplify) almost plain text files with multiple records in each 
file.  Thus I can have a file named diary (or named something else) and just go 
to that file and start typing.  I can add the record separator (and a title / 
subject, date stamp, and any other meta data I want after (or before) I enter 
the text of the data.

In its current iteration (the 4th by one method of counting) it uses mbox files 
with mbox multiline mail headers as the record separator (and to store the 
meta data).

I can search and modify records in the plain text file, I can also read the 
files in an email client, and my intent is to index them (and and an indexed 
search (using recoll).  (ATM, I'm not actually using recoll, I set it up some 
time ago as a "proof of concept" but when I migrated to the next computer I 
didn't bring it along.

I currently mainly use kate as an editor, with syntax highlighting and folding 
to make it easier to read / access.

Although I'd like to release it some day, it is not yet in the state I'd like 
to have it in if / when released.

If anybody wants more details to try it out for themselves, or to work on it, 
let me know.

The current desire of my work is to migrate to a Scintilla based editor as 
that will give me a wider choice of possible editors, and deal with some bugs 
in the kate implementation (I'd call them kate bugs, but, conceivably, they'd 
say they fixed the bug (after something like 10 years) -- I made a half-hearted 
attempt to adjust my syntax highlighter after they claimed the bug was fixed, 
but it didn't seem to work -- I suspect they did something to undo the fix ;-)

I'd like to get the syntax highligher / folder for Scintilla written in C++, 
but C++ is a major stumbling block for me.  ;-)