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Add Org journal support #779

Open jakeisnt opened 4 years ago

jakeisnt commented 4 years ago

I have searched for existing issues that may be the same as or related to mine.

I use Org-mode extensively for writing and tracking a daily journal, and would love to be able to easily interact with this journal through Orgzly.

I'm proposing the addition of a 'Journal' view - distinct from the 'Agenda' view - that has a UI more conducive to on the fly journaling than the structured approach that Orgzly's current interface takes.

Creating a new journal entry shouldn't require the user to look at previous entries. The 'journal' page view should be a calendar or timeline to display temporal information, with the '+' button creating a new journal entry. This works similar to the 'org-journal' package's new entry feature - - it opens a window similar to any other orgzly note, but once the note is saved, it's slotted into the journal similar to 'org-journal' s behavior.

This is an initiative I have already started working on and would love to merge into Orgzly, but before doing further work I'd like to determine whether the community sees this as a reasonable feature for the Orgzly app or if a separate app should be created.

deadcombo commented 3 years ago

I don't speak for the community, but would very much like to see this.

Especially if you've worked on it already.

pvrsa commented 3 years ago

Just searched for orgzly repo for adding the exact same feature request. @jakeisnt Thanks for the work you are doing.

The biggest problem I face is that I use org-journal in day mode (on my mac), which creates a file for each day. Using that along with orgzly messes up the whole app because each day's file shows up as a different notebook in orgzly. As a workaround, I started using org-jounal in month mode so that atleast one file per month will not cause clutter.

But I very much would love to go back to using org-journal at a day to day rotating file basis, and envisioned the exact same design for orgzly support as you have mentioned.

I am also interested in development of the feature in case you need help.