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journal entry repo

##18:22 Saturday 14 February 2015 JST##

For years, I have been writing my journal entries in directories based on the date. Originally in YYYY/MM directories, and now (temporarily?) in YYYY/MM/DD directories.

So while recently trying to consolidate all my journal entries, I've wanted to maintain that directory structure, lest I have several thousand(?) files in one directory.

Travis got me started on Hakyll, but I'm too lazy and he's too busy to update the Haskell source with cool bells and whistles.

I started looking at Pelican, but it choked on all the entries, which start with --- as the first line. Hmm lemme do a quick search.

Okay I found Add yaml Reader and YAML importer for Emacs org-mode posts, so maybe it's easily possible.

Now I'm looking at Middleman, and I liked Hexo, but blah blah blah(*)..

but in ANY case, I still have found a big annoyance with implementing any of these static site genrators: my journal entries are the biggest part of the repo!

SO, I've made a separate repo which just has my journal entries, in YYYY/MM(/DD) directories.

But still, even this solution has the fatal flaw of a shload of broken links, especially to /images directory.

(*) I've used the link "/journal/2015/02/12/middleman-and-hexo.md" but I'm thinking now of switching to /journal/2015/02/12middleman-and-hexo.md because its easier for me to find.... ohhhhh I know. I'll tell the static site generator to use /journal/2015/02/12/middleman-and-hexo but the file will be at /journal/2015/02/12middleman-and-hexo.md so I can find the entries a bit more easily in my file folders.

In one month I have between 0 and maybe 100 entries, so that's fine to have them all in one directory. But if I add the extra DD directory, it's harder for me to find the files because I'm 30 times less likely to remember the date something happened than I am the month it happened.

Now I've got to roll through all the directories and fix the filenames.