Re: non-sourcecode log files

[Kai Grossjohann]

John Kodis <kodis@mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

> I've investigated diary mode, but that seems geared toward maintaining
> calendar entries rather than what I think of as a diary.

I can think of steno-mode.  I think that's what it was called.

But it seems that maybe something extremely simple such as

(defun john-add-diary ()
  (interactive)
  (find-file "~/johns-diary")
  (end-of-buffer)
  (newline)
  (insert (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d ")))

might do something you like.