Dev Log

The software development log to reflect and capture your thoughts, progress and TODOs.

Devlog's goal is to help you create a "Development Log" to reflect and generate notes after a coding session.

Devlog generates a simple markdown file to a directory you specify which gives you alot of flexibility. You can save your log files into a git repository or to a cloud file service directory like dropbox, google drive, or one drive for automated syncing and backup.

Devlog prioritizes:

• Open standards over closed. Keep your notes in markdown files that can be queried for easily in a directory, not locked into some vendors service or custom formatting standards.
• Ease of use and simplicity. This is not meant to be a complex static content generator. It strives to be an easy to configure and create log files to fill out in a text editor of your choice.

Configure

By default devlog will generate a file in the current directory unless specify the directory via setting the environment variable DEVLOG_DIR.

Configuration using environment variables:

Set the directory to save devlog files to:

export DEVLOG_DIR="/home/your_username/your_directory"

You can override this by temporarily setting the value when calling devlog

DEVLOG_DIR="/home/your_username/other_directory" devlog

Configuration using command line options:

You can also pass in configurations via command line options. Command line options take precedence over configurations set via environment variables.

devlog -p "/home/your_username/your_directory" -c "/home/your_username/your_directory/custom-config.yaml" 

To view all the possible command line options, just pass in the -h command line option for help e.g. devlog -h

Build and Install Locally

Prerequisites:

• go lang version 1.13

Simply clone this repository and run the following command to build the binary:

make build

This will create a binary locally you can run commands against already, like so:

./devlog

Build and copy the binary to your local bin to access the CLI anywhere. It will likely prompt you for a password since it's needed to install things to your /usr/local/bin.

make install

Now you can run the command devlog from anywhere to generate a new devlog file:

devlog
2019/09/02 22:00:32 Successfully saved dev log to directory: /home/dev/null

Releases

Currently working on building binaries automatically and uploading them as releases to ease installation.