A bash function that I use to create a daily org journal.

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#!/bin/bash

function cj() {
  JOURNAL_HOME="$HOME/.journal"
  FILE="$JOURNAL_HOME/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)".org

  mkdir -p "$JOURNAL_HOME"

  if [[ ! -f "$FILE" ]]; then
    JOURNAL_COUNTER_FILE="$JOURNAL_HOME/.journal-counter"

    if [[ ! -f "$JOURNAL_COUNTER_FILE" ]]; then
      echo "0" > "$JOURNAL_COUNTER_FILE"
    fi

    NUM=$(<"$JOURNAL_COUNTER_FILE")
    NUM=$((NUM+1))

    echo "#+TITLE: Journal #"$NUM > "$FILE"
    echo "#+AUTHOR: Ramanpreet Nara" >> "$FILE"
    echo "#+DATE: $(date)" >> "$FILE"
    echo "#+STARTUP: latexpreview" >> "$FILE"
    echo "" >> "$FILE"
    printf "* " >> "$FILE"

    echo $NUM > "$JOURNAL_COUNTER_FILE"
  fi
}

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