journal

This repo provides easy install and sync utils for my obsidian journal.

It uses crontab alongside git-crypt and git-lfs to perform automatic syncing of journal contents to this repository, encrypting the contents of the journal pages with a key, and storing any media files separately on git large file storage (LFS).

This repo can be adapted for your own journal by:

1. forking the repo
2. replacing the /journal directory with your own obsidian vault
3. replacing the keyfile with your own
4. initializing git-crypt on the fork.

Installation

# clone the repo
git clone git@github.com:mrhwick/journal.git

# run installer
cd journal
./scripts/install.sh

This installer script automatically:

1. adds the git-crypt tool using brew install git-crypt
2. Checks for a key file named keyfile and configures git-crypt encryption to use that key.
   • This step will fail if the keyfile is not the key initially used to encrypt the contents of my journal.
3. Adds necessary extension config for the git-lfs to work with git-crypt.
4. adds a crontab for every 20 minutes to run a sync with github to distribute changes in journal state or content.

Usage

https://obsidian.md/

https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs

https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt