Write your journal in a single-text file. Example:
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year: 2017
month: July
day: Wed 19
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Let's reinvent push-button publishing on the internets!
Use a single-file for your journal / diary / blog. That's it.
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day: Thu 20
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Crazy idea? Let's put up a website and a example blog auto-generated from journal.txt.
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day: Fri 21
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Did you know? The single-file format works great for advent calendars
or beer-of-the-day calendars.
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day: Sat 22
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Let's add another example. A diary about the Oktoberfest 2016. Prost. Cheers.
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day: Sun 23
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Let's rest.
How does it work?
The single-text file is a series of meta data and text blocks.
Use the meta data block for adding the date. In the first meta data block you need a “full” date, that is, year/month/day e.g.:
year: 2017
month: July
day: Wed 19
or
date: 2017-07-19
In the following entries you only need to add what changes e.g. still in the same month as yesterday? just add a day entry (and the computer will calculate the full date) e.g.:
day: Thu 20
or
day: 20
Use any of these date entries:
Bonus: Add the year or month to the file name. If you use a filename in the YYYY-MM-title.txt or YYYY-title.txt or format than journal.txt will auto-add the year (and month) from the filename.
Note: You do NOT need a title for you entries and you do NOT need a title for your journal (use journal.txt if you like).
If you use a differnt name e.g. austria.txt or 2017-oktoberfest.txt than journal.txt will auto-add the title from the filename.
By default the journal entries get auto-titled. Example:
If you add a title - the title by default gets added e.g.
Note: You can always customize the title format. FUTURE (To be done).
You can add tweets (or toots) to your journal.TXT. Use a “generic” block in the Text with Instructions (.texti) format. Example:
:::::: Tweet :::::::
:: New! Journal.TXT - Single-Text File Publishing -
:: The Human Multi-Document Format for Writers - Blogging Reinvented https://journaltxt.github.io
or use the “long” block form:
:::::: Tweet ::::::::::::
New! Journal.TXT - Single-Text File Publishing -
The Human Multi-Document Format for Writers - Blogging Reinvented https://journaltxt.github.io
::::::::::::::::::::::
If configured your Journal.TXT processor will publish (auto-build) your blog AND publish your (new) tweets (on twitter) all from a single-text source file, for example.
Single-Text File Journals - The Human Multi-Document Format for Writers
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year: 2017
month: July
day: Mon 17
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Jumping on tram #1 in front of the Staatsoper (state opera house).
Circling the Ringstrasse (grand boulevard vienna ring road)
for a great tour with a public transport ticket.
Passing the Hofburg (imperial palace), Parlament,
Burggarten (imperial court's garden),
Rathaus (city council), Burgtheater (imperial court's theatre),
Vienna University, and more. [...]
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day: Tue 18
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Visiting the imperial palace Schönbrunn - the former summer residence
of the Habsburg family.
Taking an inside tour of the 1 441-room baroque palace.
Enjoying the Neptune Fountain and sculptures in the public garden. [...]
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day: Wed 19
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Visiting the Sigmund Freud Museum in Bergstrasse 9. Too much culture -
need a beer therapy soon.
Passing through the Palais Lichtenstein to the
Beaver Brewing Co. (Liechtensteinstraße 69). [...]
See the live auto-built Vienna.TXT Blog »
Berlin.TXT, Munich.TXT, Salzburg.TXT, Paris.TXT, London.TXT, Rome.TXT, New York.TXT, Austin.TXT, Tornoto.TXT, Calgary.TXT, Melbourne.TXT, Sydney.TXT, … - Anyone? Write your perfect day(s) in a single-text file with Journal.TXT.
The Journal.TXT format and conventions are dedicated to the public domain. Use it as you please with no restrictions whatsoever.
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