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Gthnk

Ian Dennis Miller

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Support for Gthnk, the journal and thinking companion.
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Gthnk integration for VS Code

This VS Code extension provides Gthnk integration.

This extension can be installed through the VS Code Marketplace.

Features

Install this extension to easily insert date and time markers within your Gthnk journal.

  • Ctrl-Alt-Cmd-N: date marker
  • Ctrl-Alt-Cmd-M: time marker

For Windows machines, use the Windows key instead of Cmd.

Requirements

This extension requires Gthnk to be installed.

Gthnk runs inside a Docker container:

docker run -d --rm \
    --name gthnk \
    -p 1620:1620 \
    -v ~/.gthnk:/home/gthnk/storage \
    iandennismiller/gthnk

Usage

The default journal is ~/.gthnk/journal.txt, where you will record your notes. Open journal.txt in VS Code:

code ~/.gthnk/journal.txt

Journal Entries

To get started with journal.txt, insert a date marker (Ctrl-Alt-Cmd-N) to start a new journal day. Then, insert a time marker (Ctrl-Alt-Cmd-M) to start a journal entry. Now you can compose your note in journal.txt.

You can add multiple entries per day - and even multiple days - by inserting date and time markers as you work.

Gthnk Interface

To interact with the Gthnk journal, connect to http://localhost:1620 and log in with the username user@example.com and the password secret.

Click the refresh icon in the Journal interface to make Gthnk import from journal.txt. Now your journal entries are indexed and searchable - and journal.txt is a blank document waiting for your next entries.

Next Steps

Gthnk can do much more than this - see the Gthnk website to learn about Gthnk.

Changelog

See the Changelog for an itemized list of changes.

For more information

  • Gthnk Website
  • Gthnk Documentation
  • Gthnk on Github
  • Gthnk Docker image on Github
  • Gthnk VS Code extension on Github
  • Gthnk Extension from VS Code Marketplace
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