📒 bjournal

A simple and fast CLI-based todo tracker — with goal management coming soon.

✨ Features

• ⚡ Fast & Lightweight Designed for terminal lovers who want quick access without clutter.

• 🧠 Intuitive & Handy Easy-to-remember commands with helpful aliases (i for insert, rm for remove, etc.)

• 🔒 Privacy-First Runs fully locally — no data is sent anywhere.

• 📅 Date-Based Todo Management Add, list, remove, and manage todos for today, tomorrow, yesterday, or any specific date.

• ✅ Mark as Done/Undone Update your todos’ status using their index numbers.

• 🔥 Prioritize with Bold Emphasize important tasks. Mark repeatedly for even higher priority.

• ⏩ Forward Tasks Move any todo to another date — great for shifting plans.

• ♻️ Default (Recurring) Todos Add habits or recurring tasks that auto-fill into each day.

• 📊 View Recent History Use --last-7 to view todos from the last 7 days.

• 📀 Backup Support Backup your data to any file path and locate your local storage with ease.

🚀 Installation

🟢 Requires Node.js v14 or newer (npm is included)

Install globally via npm:

npm install -g bjournal

⚠️ v2.0.0 Change Notice Data is now stored at: ~/.config/bjournal/data.json If you're upgrading from v1, your old data will not be auto-migrated.

Run from anywhere in your terminal:

bjournal [command] [options]

📖 Usage

To view all available commands:

bjournal --help

To see options and examples for a specific command:

bjournal help insert
bjournal help list
# ...and so on

🔐 Legal & Disclaimer

⚠️ Use at your own risk.

• This tool does not collect or transmit your data externally.
• All operations happen locally on your device.

The developer (me) is not responsible for data loss, corruption, or unintended behavior. Please back up your data and use with care.

By using this tool, you agree that:

• You take full responsibility for its use
• No liability is held against the developer

🔒 These terms apply retroactively to all previous versions, and forward to all future updates.

🛠️ Development

Clone and set up locally:

git clone https://github.com/sudowilo/bjournal.git
cd bjournal
npm install
npm link  # Symlink to test the CLI globally

Now you can run it like so:

bjournal

📄 License

MIT © sudowilo See LICENSE for more information.