Linux Journaling Software for the Command Line (CLI)

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Logfile Viewers

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Gnome Logs

kjournal

Journal Viewer

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Commandline Journaling

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TUI Journal

Bournal

Bournal is a commandline journal editor, it features password protection and an interactive mode, it’s a good option if you want to be able to return to older notes and edit them. I’ve used jrnl in the past and find it preferable due to the low overhead adding entries, if you don’t mind the overhead required to enter a password and prefer interacting in the shell rather than memorizing command line options. It also features snarky status and error messages,

noto

cournal

bok

chronicle

chronicle is very simple, it creates a directory at ~/.chronicle underneath this directory are a series of subdirectories year/month/day containing textfiles named hour:minute:second in 24 hour format. This option is low overhead and in my opinion approaches the usablility of jrnl

jrnl

jrnl is great, it stores your journal in a single text file. You’re prompted to provide a location on first run. I chose a location in my synced remote storage directory. simply running the concise jrnl opens a new note. jrnl --list presents you with a list of journal files. jrnl --edit opens the entire file for editing. It’s also possible to enter short entries as an argument to jrnl like this jrnl this is an entry

GUI Journaling

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Red Notebook

Lifeograph