Journal is a note taking application that is used to keep track of your daily activities, thoughts, and ideas. It uses Vim as its default text editor, but you can also use other text editors. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Journal on Arch Linux.
Before we can start installing Journal, we need to ensure that our Arch Linux system is up to date. To do this, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo pacman -Syu
Journal is built upon Vim, so we need to make sure that Vim is installed on our system. To do so, run the following command:
sudo pacman -S vim
We also need to install the following dependencies:
sudo pacman -S mlocate wget
Now that we have installed the dependencies, we can download and install Journal from its repository. To do this, we need to follow these steps:
git clone https://github.com/inoda/journal.git
cd journal
sudo make install
sudo updatedb
That's it! You can now use Journal on your Arch Linux system.
To start Journal, simply run the following command:
journal
Journal will open in Vim. You can now start recording your daily activities, thoughts and ideas.
Journal has many configuration options. You can configure Journal by editing its configuration file located at ~/.journalrc. Some of the most common options are:
EDITOR: The default text editor to use (defaults to Vim).JOURNAL_DIR: The directory where Journal will store its notes.You can also customize the way Journal looks by editing the ~/.vimrc.journal file.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Journal on Arch Linux. Journal is a very useful tool for keeping track of your daily activities, thoughts and ideas. With Journal, you can easily search and filter your notes to find the information you need. I hope this tutorial has helped you get started with Journal.
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