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A simple org-mode based journaling mode
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[help] How can I see all the entries in `org-journal` from a single file? #402

Closed avatar-lavventura closed 2 years ago

avatar-lavventura commented 2 years ago

I am using org-journal to keep track of my diary. When I create a new entry using org-journal-next-entry I can see the entries I wrote within the day but not the older ones.

I want to see all th entries in org-journal when I enter a new entry using org-journal-next-entry, is it possible? or can we store all the entries in a single file instead of distributing them into multiple.

Basically I want to carry over all the previous entries.

Example of https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal carries over only TODOs, but I was not able to change it to carry over all entries:


    (let ((matcher (cdr (org-make-tags-matcher org-journal-carryover-items))))
      (dolist (entry (reverse old_carryover))
        (save-restriction
          (narrow-to-region (car entry) (cadr entry)) 
          (goto-char (point-min))
          (org-scan-tags '(lambda ()
                            (org-set-tags ":carried:"))
                         matcher org--matcher-tags-todo-only))))))

(setq org-journal-handle-old-carryover 'my-old-carryover) ```
bastibe commented 2 years ago

You can set org-journal-file-type to yearly. That's not quite the same as one file, but at least 356 times closer than daily. If you feel it worthwhile, you could also contribute a new org-journal-file-type for the entire journal in one file.

That said, I initially implemented org-journal as a way to step away from a one-file solution, as I found it cumbersome once the file got bigger. Perhaps a look at diary might also be warranted.