Journal

# My obsidian journal (WIP)

### Necessary plugins:

- Text expand (retrieves notes tagged `#journal` and copies the note contents)
- Privacy glasses (for privacy blurring effect)
- QuickAdd (to create multi-step "refresh entries" button, see screenshot below)
- Buttons
- Heatmap Calendar
- Force note view mode (to always open in reading mode)

### Comments:

- The text expand plugin is still a bit rough around the edges – you might sometimes notice that "reload entries" doesn't always get everything on the page on the first click. You might need to mess around with the time delay parameters in quickadd and the delay in the text expand settings. Also, consider supporting the project or getting the developer coffee.
- I put my buttons in a separate file so that I could use them inline. Check out the buttons documentation.
- `buttons.css` needs to go in your `.obsidian/snippets` directory and then enabled in Settings -> Appearance.


### QuickAdd macro configuration:

<img width="638" alt="image" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9353833/188248493-096ed131-b6d2-485d-81dd-c2e7f33e0f2e.png">

### Result:

![Screen Recording 2022-08-24 at 2 36 40 PM](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9353833/188249090-e8011408-1990-4094-a51e-f25a11b6824c.gif)