org-journal-list

A package to display sidebar, showing a list of org-notes with preview.

For a preview, please see [screenshot.png].

Installation

You can install with use-package, from MELPA:

(use-package org-journal-list
    :ensure t
    :config
    (setq org-journal-list-default-directory "~/notes/"))

Or checkout the code and install it locally:

(use-package org-journal-list :load-path "~/your/local/path/to/this/package" :config (setq org-journal-list-default-directory "~/notes/"))

This will install org-journal-list and set ~/notes as a default journal directory.

Configurations

• Default directory: By default, it will be "~/notes/journal/". All of the *.org files in subdirectories will be listed as well. To change the default directory, you can change the org-journal-list-default-directory variable:

  (setq org-journal-list-default-directory "/your/custom/path/")

Please note that, if you use "~" as $HOME folder in your path, the full path will be displayed when the file list displayed. To omit the default path, use "/Users//" instead of "~" for $HOME.

• Default note suffix: When you open journal list with org-journal-list--start, the new note buffer will be created with the name "dd-mm-yyyy.journal.org", you can change the ".journal.org" part by changing org-journal-list-default-suffix variable:

  (setq org-journal-list-default-suffix ".org")

But you can't change the "dd-mm-yyyy" part, this is intended to let you reopen the note of the same day at any point after the file created. If you have a different note-taking workflow, you can just change the new buffer creation behavior, see the next section.

• Create empty buffer instead of a named one: By changing org-journal-list-create-temp-buffer to a non-nil value, you will have an empty org-mode buffer instead of a named one:

  (setq org-journal-list-create-temp-buffer t)

The default directory when you save the buffer will be your journal default directory.