David Wilson over at System Crafters has the third video up in his series on Org-roam. I’ve said before, I’ve found his series more useful than any other introduction to Org-roam that I’ve seen.
This episode focuses on the journaling functions built into Org-roam. Since Org-roam is an implementation of a Zettelkasten, it might seem weird tack on a journal but when you think about it, a journal fits nicely into the Zettelkasten paradigm and, of course, the journal entries can be linked to and from “normal” entries.
There’s a separate Org-roam note for each day’s journal entries. The workflow is that the first note of the day creates a new note and subsequent entries for the day add headings to that note. That makes it easy to navigate to journal entries by date. There are convenient functions to go to today’s, yesterday’s, and tomorrow’s entries as well as an particular date, of course.
Adding journal entries is handled via a capture template just as other notes are. There’s a default template that you can modify but you can also add templates if you have varied needs.
If you already have a journal, you may not want to retrofit it into the Org-roam journal but if you’re just starting one, this is an excellent way. You don’t, of course, have to link your journal entries to other Org-roam notes so you can keep them separate if you like but when it makes sense to link to a journal entry or to link to a regular entry from a journal entry, it’s easy to do.
Take a look at the video to get all the details. The video is 16 minutes, 49 seconds long so you’ll probably have to schedule it but it’s easy to fit in.