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March 2, 2026

Journaling Setup

This post will recieve a few rounds of updates (fyi). I've been working on a simple terminal based journalling flow. I had a few objectives in mind. 1) All my own code 2) No server required 3) template based 4) simple analytics for habbit formation. I am pretty happy with where this project is at currently. I have a bash script that sets up a template for me which I call it and some simple python to generate a pretty robust set of analytics in the terminal. Then I am using syncthing to sync the files across all my computers ( and phone ). Synthing is cool but can be finicy at times - but, to keep everything lined up and up to date without needing a bunch of extra server stuff is pretty cool. Though the analytics are pretty cool ( I think ) the sentiment and topic aspects can be flaking. I will put this up in a repo soon so others can use it if they like. This post will get more details about objectives and next steps shortly , as well as some screen shots.

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