Looking for an App That Timestamps Each Entry

[Sojourn71]

Looking For An Open-Source Journal/Text Editor/Note Taking App That Timestamps Each Entry, Stores all Data On-Device, and is Linux-Friendly

When I say "each entry," I mean overtime I hit "Enter." I don't really care about a ton of bells and whistles as long as it has that.

I keep a running journal of some things that did/did not happen for weeks at a time, and I need to be able to accurately recall when entries were made. I know I can do it manually with almost anything, but I also know I can be forgetful as all hell when things get going.

I know a couple of people looked at me today like such an idea was crazy talk, but instant messengers have been time stamping each entry for years now.

If it were Android-friendly as well, that would be nice, but not a must.

If there really isn't such a thing Is there an easy macro I can toggle on when I need to that will accomplish the same thing?

 

[MikeRocor]

Seems like this would be a straightforward scripting project. If you only need a piece of text with a timestamp, something like this might do:

#!/bin/sh
# mylog - enter a bit of text into a log file with     lem 2026-06-22 00:02
#         time and date stamp.  Hit enter on an empty comment to exit.

LOG=/tmp/mylog.txt
STAMPFMT="+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"

while read -p "Type a log entry: " ENTRY ; do
  [ -z "${ENTRY}" ] && exit
  echo "`date "${STAMPFMT}"` ${ENTRY}" |tee -a ${LOG}
done