org-journal Support : Apps On The Move

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Yigit Demirag

started a topic over 5 years ago

Using org-journal on OSX, generates daily/monthly/yearly journal files without file extension (e.g. 20190101). The problem is that putting an .org extension (e.g. 20190101.org) breaks org-journal search function.

In beorg side, since these journal files have no extension, they can't be seen in beorg, hence impossible to create a template for them.

Is it possible in beorg to create a specific settings for downloading journal files which have no extension?

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Matthew Kennard

said over 5 years ago

You can set org-journal-file-format to have org-journal include a file extension. I'm not an org-journal user myself (at the moment anyway!) so haven't tried this.

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David Masterson

said over 5 years ago

Can you use a script to create link files for all the org-journal files? Then run the script on (say) a 1 minute timer to check for any new journal files and create the link?

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Yigit Demirag

said over 5 years ago

@Matthew, if you check README of org-journal for spacemacs, there is a warning stating changing org-journal-file-format breaks the search:

> Warning: setting org-journal-file-format to include a file extension like %Y-%m-%d.org would break the calendar search functionality.

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David Masterson

said about 1 year ago

It should be easy to create a bash script that runs through the org-journal directory and symbolically links every file to another directory and adds a .org on the file name. Something like: cd $org-journal-dir find . -name “[0-9]*” -exec “ln -s {} $ojd2/{}.org” Then just sync $ojd2 to your iOS system.