title: Vim as your daily log notebook author: rhnvrm type: post date: 2016-06-20T00:00:00+00:00 url: blog/2016/06/20/vim-as-your-daily-log-notebook/ categories:
There are probably hundreds of methods and software that have been written that can help you maintain a notebook that contains your daily logs and notes.
I have tried tens of methods and software and after a few days they just feel like bloat or take up too much time to maintain regularly.
So, I decided to break down my own problem and found a simplisitic method/solution that suits me. My need was to write two logs, one life log and one dev log which was distraction free and would not take more than a second to get started with.
I finally ended up with editing my zshrc and vimrc. Now, I just end up doing the following every morning:
(ctrl + t)today [This opens a split window having my life log and dev log side by side]nlog<space> to start a new log entry.You can look at my commits here and here to see how I have done it and modify it for yourself.