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My Journal was for a while built on top of org-journal , but I am finding it hard to work with these days, and I think returning to a 'vanilla' org-mode capture setup like my Practice Captures :

id:20220929T004858.146385

emacs-lisp source: 
(with-eval-after-load 'org-capture
  (add-to-list 'org-capture-templates
               (cce-def-dynamic-org-capture
                "jj" "Journal Entry"
                :name "daily" 
                :target file
                :capture-path-tmpl "~/org/journals/%Y-%m-%d.org"
                :template-path "~/org/cce/captures/journal-capture.org"))

  (defun cce/open-journal (&optional goto)
    (interactive "P")
    (if goto
        (org-capture-goto-last-stored)
      (org-capture goto "jj")))
  (evil-leader/set-key "j" #'cce/open-journal))

(setq org-roam-dailies-directory "journals/")

(provide 'cce/journal)

org source: :tangle ~/nix/files/captures/journal-capture.org :comments no
* %U %?

Setting this up was a bit of a pain. org-capture-templates can do a lot of dynamic templating, but it's not quite enough -- I want to have the date encoded in the file name, I specifically want each week to be stored in its own file. So I have this function cce/update-journal-capture which removes the old capture template, and generates a new one, re-running at 03:00 each morning. I'll have to turn this in to a miniature library for my other Practice Captures . I think having them stored inside the daily files for the most part is a smart thing, except for things which I need to review over longer periods of time.

things not important enough to go in the archive on their own pages but still deserve an ID and a spot to be remembered.

,#+CCE_MODULE: org-journal ,#+ARCOLOGY_KEY: cce/org-journal ,#+CCE_PRIORITY: 42

emacs-lisp source: 
(provide 'cce/org-journal)

Knowledge Management Emacs Tool , an easy daily-journal for org-mode . I configure my journal to be stored weekly, with a filename similar to the week-based Weekly Review files that I put together.

emacs-lisp source: 
; (use-package org-journal
;   :config
;   (setq org-journal-dir (expand-file-name "~/org/"))
;   (setq org-journal-carryover-items nil
;         org-journal-file-format "Journal %GW%V.org"
;         org-journal-file-type 'weekly
;         org-journal-date-format "%Y %B %d"
;         org-journal-time-format "[%Y-%m-%d %a %H:%M] "
;         org-journal-file-header "[[id:Journal][Journal]]\n"))

(setq org-extend-today-until 2)