Jupyter for keeping a journal

It has been almost three months since the last entry. I haven’t found anything really interesting to write about, even considering I have changed jobs and everything.

Probably I should write something about what I am learning at the observatory, which is a lot.

Anyways, this entry is just to say that I had been looking for a way of keeping a daily (more or less) journal: from plain text files edited via vim, to specific applications - as RedNotebook -, including, of course, the present medium.

I discarded the “blog” from the beginning, as the major of the content would (and is) just random and half-connected paragraphs, about what I have to do, what I understood I have to do, etc.

And then, I used a Jupyter to test a couple of things on a Python notebook, together with some notes about my thinking. And I saw it was good.

It is brilliant! Not only can I write down notes in plain text (or rather markdown), but also insert pieces of code and run them. Even better, the result of the execution - also images and formulas written in Latex - can be seen on the Github repo where I am committing the notes.

These notes can be useful not only for myself, but I can also pass them along so others can see them, again, including pieces of code, plots and the like.

How didn’t I come with this before?!