How do you create time-stamped text files for personal diaries or work logs?

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  • jrnl

    Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the command line.

  • bcapps

  • My https://github.com/barrycarter/bcapps/tree/master/bc-doing.pl does this: given argument(s), it writes that arguments (combined with a spice) to a timestamped file (called ~/DOING). Without arguments, it reads back the ~/DOING file in reverse order. You can edit the ~/DOING file so that the program ignores them during readback

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • nb

    CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

  • xmwx/nb

  • bashblog

    A single Bash script to create blogs. Download, run, write, done!

  • bashblog is a single file bash shell script that will do what you want.

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