Enter journal directory with todays date and a slug description

mkjournal

#!/bin/sh -e

# Create a new journal directory in ~/journal Specify a journal slug (short
# non-space description). A new directory will be created with todays date as a
# prefix.

if [ -z $1 ]; then
	echo "Specify journal slug as argument"
	exit 1
fi

TOPIC=$1
DATE=$(date "+%y%m%d")
CAT=~/journal/${DATE}_${TOPIC}
mkdir -p $CAT
cd $CAT
echo "Starting new shell in $CAT"
$SHELL