🗓️ dailylog

A minimal journaling tool

✨ Features

• Opens your $EDITOR (defaults to vim) to write an entry
• Git commit style parsing: First line becomes title, body after blank line
• Saves entries with timestamps and markdown formatting to YYYY-MM-DD.md
• View previous day's log entry with dailylog previous
• Log summarization: Review and analyze logs for the past X days with statistics
• Git sync support: Sync logs across devices with automatic push/pull
• Configurable log directory via a simple TOML config
• Clean, dependency-light, and terminal-native

📦 Installation

Requires Rust toolchain. Install Rust

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/cetanu/dailylog.git
cd dailylog
cargo build --release
cp target/release/dailylog ~/.local/bin/

Install via Cargo

cargo install dailylog

⚙️ Configuration

Create a config file at ~/.dailylog.toml:

# Directory where your daily logs are stored
log_dir = "/path/to/your/log/folder"

# Optional: Git repository URL for syncing logs across devices
git_repo = "https://github.com/yourusername/dailylogs.git"

# Optional: Enable automatic git sync after each log entry (default: false)
git_auto_sync = true

# Optional: Days to include in summary statistics (default: monday-friday)
# Accepts: monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sunday
# Short forms also work: mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, sat, sun
summary_days = ["monday", "tuesday", "wednesday", "thursday", "friday"]

Make sure the log directory exists, or dailylog will try to create it on first run.

Usage

Create a new log entry

dailylog

This will:

1. Open your editor (via $EDITOR or default to vim)
2. Parse your input using git commit style (title on first line, body after blank line)
3. Save formatted entry with timestamp to a file like 2025-05-31.md
4. Auto-sync with git if enabled

Entry format example:

Fixed authentication bug

Updated the login system to handle edge cases.
This resolves the timeout issues users reported.

- Improved error messages
- Added validation

Becomes:

## 14:30 - Fixed authentication bug

Updated the login system to handle edge cases.
This resolves the timeout issues users reported.

- Improved error messages
- Added validation

View previous day's log entry

dailylog previous

Add to previous day's log

dailylog yesterday

Edit today's log in-place

dailylog edit

This opens today's log file in your editor, allowing you to modify, add to, or reorganize your entries for the day.

Summarize and review logs for past X days

# Summarize logs for the past 7 days (default)
dailylog summary

# Summarize logs for the past 30 days
dailylog summary --days 30

# Short form
dailylog summary -d 14

This command provides:

• Summary statistics: Total entries, logging consistency percentage, by default includes only Monday-Friday, but can be customized via summary_days in config
• Daily breakdown: Shows entry titles/headers for each day with entries
• Colorized output: Easy-to-read format with different colors for different sections

Git sync commands

# Sync logs (pull then push)
dailylog sync

# Pull latest logs from repository
dailylog pull

# Push local logs to repository
dailylog push

Setting up git sync:

1. Create a git repository (GitHub, GitLab, etc.)
2. Add git_repo = "your-repo-url" to ~/.dailylog.toml
3. Run dailylog sync to initialize
4. Optionally enable git_auto_sync = true for automatic syncing

Note: on shells like fish, sometimes $EDITOR is not set to propagate to child processes. You can fix this with set -Ux EDITOR myEditor