Multiple entries with same timestamp should be grouped together

[drax10]

Feature Request

Use Case/Motivation

I use jrnl to log what happened that day. On occasion, I will add more than one record for the same day using jrnl today: blah blah. The end result is:

[2021-05-17 09:00] Something amazing happened
You'll never guess what that was

[2021-05-17 09:00] Some other cool thing happened today

Since these have the same exact timestamp I expected the second record to be appended onto the previous one like so:

[2021-05-17 09:00] Something amazing happened
You'll never guess what that was

Some other cool thing happened today

[minchinweb]

This is a possible use case for a custom exporter. See #1216 for development work on implementing then.

For output, are you concerned about telling the two entries apart?

For usability, is there a reason you're creating two entries in the first place and not editing the first one instead? (jrnl -1 --edit will pull up the last entry to edit it)

[drax10]

Perfect! Once that's merged I can try my hand in making a custom exporter to accomplish this.

I am not concerned about telling the two apart. My use case is to journal what happened in each day, so I'd like one record each day.

The reason I haven't done jrnl -1 --edit is I didn't know that I could do that! Although it isn't a perfect solution because I need to remember if I have already logged something or not that day,

[micahellison]

Since this is going to be handled with a plugin, I'm closing this issue. Feel free to let us know and/or link your plugin from this issue when you're done.