Project Journal.kim

"It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part. But it does get easier." —Bojack Horseman

This project is indended for me to provide weekly updates regarding my goals (systems) that I currently have on a website called Beeminder. Powered by Jekyll!

I’ve decided to begin this meta-accountability experiement, where I’ll report my progress with my goals on this website weekly, in collaboration with my account on Beeminder. I hope that this extra push of consistent reporting will help me succeed with my goals and stick to good habits.

For further reading

• The Tao of Bees: How I use Beeminder
• The Sting of Work: How I Use Beeminder, Part Two
• Goal Failure: A post-capitalist critique on boiling frogs, minimum-happiness, harmful-easy things, and lists.
• Goal Success: Getting back on your horse, no matter how many times you’ve fallen off.
• New! Tracking Every Aspect of My Life for a Year: Success with Beeminder

Installation

Prerequisites

Jekyll requires the following:

• Ruby version 2.7.0 or higher (3.0+ recommended)
• RubyGems
• GCC and Make

See Requirements for guides and details.

Note: This site has been recently updated to Jekyll 4.3.4 with modern dependencies and security improvements.

Instructions

1. Install all prerequisites.
2. Install the jekyll and bundler gems.

gem install jekyll bundler

3. Clone this repository.

git clone https://github.com/brennanbrown/journalbar.git

4. Change into your new directory.

cd journalbar

5. Install gems from the Gemfile.

bundle install

5. Build the site and make it available on a local server.

bundle exec jekyll serve

6. Browse to http://localhost:4000

Pass the --livereload option to serve to automatically refresh the page with each change you make to the source files: bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload

If you encounter any errors during this process, check that you have installed all the prerequisites in Requirements. If you still have issues, see Troubleshooting.

Support This Project

If you find value in this experiment and documentation, consider supporting my work:

• ☕ Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi
• ❤️ Sponsor on GitHub

Your support helps me continue creating free resources and tools for the productivity community.

Credit

Original Jekyll theme Watery and CSS styles from Writ.css.