jrnlSync

Simple tool to backup notes from jrnl to another provider. Currently only works on unix systems with cron as it leverages cron to handle the automatic backups, though the sync command should work on windows as well (not tested though).

Feature/Provider List:

• Custom cron setting for sync timing
• Notion
  • Daily sync of previous day notes
  • Initial sync of all notes
  • Sync from multiple machines (don't overwrite existing page)
• Obisidan
• Roam
• Timeline

Installation

• Homebrew
• DNF/YUM
• APT/DEB
• go install

Homebrew

brew tap jm96441n/jrnlSync
brew install jrnlSync

DNF/YUM

1. Add the repository by creating the following file /etc/yum.repos.d/jrnlSync.repo, with:

 [jrnlSync]
name=jrnlSync Repository
baseurl=https://yum.fury.io/jm96441n
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

2. Install:

sudo dnf install jrnlSync

APT/DEB

1. Add the repository by creating the following file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jrnlSync.list, with:

deb [trusted=yes] https://apt.fury.io/jm96441n/ /

2. Instal:

sudo apt-get install jrnlSync

go install

If you have the go toolchain and prefer to install go binaries that way you can install with:

go install https://github.com/jm96441n/jrnlSync@latest

Usage

The following commands are available setup notion

NOTE: Right now only the body of the notes are synced, soon we'll be syncing both the title and body.

setup

This command should be used the first time you download the package, as it's used to set the cron job that will perform nightly syncs of your jrnl entries. To set this up you need a Notion Integration Key and you'll need the id of your notion database that these entries will be backed up to, instructions from notion here or from the notion documentation:

Here's a quick procedure to find the database ID for a specific database in Notion:

Open the database as a full page in Notion. Use the Share menu to Copy link. Now paste the link in your text editor so you can take a closer look. The URL uses the following format:

`https://www.notion.so/{workspace_name}/{database_id}?v={view_id}`

Once you have both of those keys, just run jrnlSync setup and it will prompt you for the information needed. (Note we don't store these keys anywhere, they're written to the crontab as arguments to the notion command).

And that's it! Now every night right after midnight the notion command will be run which will sync your notes from the day prior to a page in your notion database.

notion

This command is to sync notes to notion. As of now this command only handles syncing notes from the day prior to a page in a notion database. You can call this command with:

jrnlSync notion -d [DATABASE_ID] -k [NOTION_INTEGRATION_KEY]

where [DATABASE_ID] is replaced with the database to write the pages to and [NOTION_INTEGRATION_KEY] is replaced with your notion integration key.

Contributing

Feel free to fork the repo and the open a pull request! I'm open to reviewing new features and hope that ya'll find this useful!