Markdown Bullet Journal

Markdown Bullet Journal is a digital adaptation of analog tech. I found having a running todo list with daily migrations dropping done items worked best for my workflow. Add a simple summary app to show you all you have accomplished and I'm happy.

These are a simple set of utilities that work for me. Nothing fancy

mdbj-migrate

When run in a directory, takes the last dated .md file, copies it to a new file with today's date, and dropes all lines marked completed (with a '[x]').

mdbj-summary

Consumes all dated .md files in the directory and prints out all done tasks (lines with '[x]'). Properly collapses nested items into one line names like

Complex task
- Subpart A
  - Task 1

into

"Complex task / Subpart A / Task 1"

Markdown supported

The basics of headers with '#'

Nested lists with '-' and indentation

Todo and done with '[ ]' and '[x]'

Obviously you can use other markdown features such as bold, italics and Links but none of these trigger any special treatment with regards to Markdown Bullet Journal.

See the included demo file for a better idea.

Extra Markdown Bullet Journal 'modules'

Daily Repetitive Tasks

These are tasks you might want to do a subset of on any given day, and possibly several times. You would like it tracked, but on migration you would like it 'reset to 0' not dropped. In my case I use it with a list of exercises I pick one to do a few times a day.

4x10 - Pushups
0x10 - Crunches
0x10 - Lunges
1x5 - minutes of meditation

Will get output as:

40 pushups
5 minutes of meditation

And then on migration the '4' and '1' will get reset to 0 and the tasks will not get dropped

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