gh-diary

GitHub CLI extension to open today's issue.

Install

gh extension install r7kamura/gh-diary

Usage

# Open the text editor to write comment to today's issue.
gh diary editor --repo foo/bar

# Open today's issue in the web browser.
gh diary web --repo foo/bar

Suppose today is May 9 2022, this command works as follows:

1. Create an issue titled "2022-05-09" if it doesn't exists on foo/bar repo
2. Open the text editor or the web broser

If you are working on foo/bar repo directory, you can omit --repo foo/bar option:

gh diary editor

Background

I created this extension to use GitHub Issues as my diary by using r7kamura/gialog.

• https://r7kamura.github.io/diary/

To easily open today's issue from anywhere, I'm using gh d alias like this:

$ gh alias set d "diary web --repo r7kamura/diary"
- Adding alias for d: diary web --repo r7kamura/diary
✓ Added alias.
$ gh d
Opening github.com/r7kamura/diary/issues/1 in your browser.