Tricking myself into writing.

discipline

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# I use the following script to trick myself into writing every day.
#
# All it does is create a directory for the current month (YYYY/MM),
# create an empty markdown file for today and annoy the hell out of
# me until I put something in that file.
#
# I run the script with GeekTool every 30 minutes:
#   http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/
#
# The directory structure is:
#
# journal
#   2014
#     01
#     02
#       01.md
#       02.md
#       03.md
#   bin
#     discipline
#

require 'date'
require 'fileutils'

ROOT_DIR = ::File.expand_path('../../',  __FILE__)

date = Date.today

month_dir = ROOT_DIR  + '/' + date.strftime('%Y/%m')
filename  = month_dir + '/' + date.strftime('%d') + '.md'

unless File.exists?(filename)
  FileUtils.mkdir_p(month_dir)
  FileUtils.touch(filename)
end

if File.zero?(filename)
  `osascript -e 'display notification "You haven’t written anything today! 😢" with title "Write"'`

  puts 'Your journal is empty 😢'
end