Journal Sync

A brief script to sync a journal from Monica to plain-text (e.g., Zim wiki or Obsidian.md)

Currently functional

• Connect to Monica API
• Download journal (at least, one page worth)
• Reformat journal JSON into usable Python
• Checking if folder structure is already present

Next steps

• Add Obsidian capability
  • Definitely need a way to represent Obsidian's structure so files are not overwritten (maybe there's a module?)
  • Add push ability
  • Allow custom heads/tags
  • Store relevant information in front-matter in files
• Create an actual flow for syncing rather than working at it haphazardly
• Create skeleton config.yml file (and maybe load if populated)
• Make folder structure if it doesn't exist (per entry)
• Create (touch) Zim file for entry
• Add journal entries to each text file
  • Have a way of creating entries/files in a reproducible way (to check if they need to be added to or rewritten/created)

The current dilemma is that Zim (specifically Zim) will only have one file per day, while Monica may have an unlimited number. This presents a problem in determining if a file in Zim has all the entries for a particular day in Monica. Ideas:

• Overwrite the Zim file with the concatenated data from Monica (simple)
• Have Monica entries in a Zim file appear after a certain "tag" (little more complicated)
  • This is likely the way it'll go

Ideal flow

This is how the program is supposed to work, ideally:

But for right now, after getting the Monica data, it creates a Zim page and just writes to the file, regardless of existing contents.