🌳 Journaling my DevOps from the terminal

hello everyone 👋

while experimenting in my homelab, I found a simple way to log progress while still in the terminal called "jrnl"

it feels good for beginners like me who are getting comfortable living in the terminal as it helps you build muscle memory and keep notes at the same time.

so i can do stuff like "jrnl "finally fixed my Kubernetes ingress issue 🎉"

you can also encrypt your file using: jrnl --encrypt

if you want to see your last 5 logs you can simply: jrnl -n 5

you can change the config file and store it in your Obsidian vault if you feel like you want to take a fast note without switching apps and then you can come back to it when you want to do more deep learning.

sudo pacman -S python-pip

pip install jrnl --break-system-packages

yay -S jrnl (if you are using an AUR helper like yay)

sudo apt install jrnl # Ubuntu/Debian

brew install jrnl # macOS

pip install jrnl # Python

hope it helps!

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