With a lot of projects I like to keep a log or journal. Mdbook is a niceway to do that, but I find that actually entering in the day and date and creating a new file can be error prone and tedious.
mdbook-newday is a very special purpose command that will take
a SUMMARY.mdfile and add a line to it for the current day.
The format of that line is
- [%A, %b %d, %Y](./%Y/%Y-%m/%Y-%m-%d.md), ie
- [Thursday, Jan 01, 1970](./1970/1970-01/1970-01-01.md).
If you then run mdbook serve, it will create a file at ./1970/1970-01/1970-01-01.md .
The file will be automatically given a title in the form # Thursday, Jan 01, 1970 .
When I read a log, I prefer to read the most recent days the most often, so
the current day is placed at the top of SUMMARY.md rather than the bottom.
Just run the command
bash
mdbook-newday path/to/SUMMARY.md
before running mdbook serve.
The command will create a new line of the form
- [Thursday, Jan 01, 1970](./1970/1970-01/1970-01-01.md)
at the top of your SUMMARY.md file (but after the title and any introduction link).
Then mdbook serve will autogenerate the linked file.