About

driftlog started in early 2024 as a weekend tool to scratch a personal itch: a journal that's just text, with search that doesn't make me wait.

Philosophy

• Own your data. Plain Markdown files, no database, no account. You should be able to read your journal with cat in twenty years.
• Small and sharp. A handful of commands that do one thing each. No plugin system, no GUI, no scope creep.
• Fast. Opening, writing, and finding an entry should feel instant, even at tens of thousands of entries.
• Private. Nothing phones home. Optional encryption-at-rest for anything sensitive.

License

driftlog is free software under the MIT license. Use it, fork it, ship it.

Contributing

driftlog is MIT-licensed free software. Bug reports with a minimal reproduction are especially appreciated; small, focused patches even more so. Please run go test ./... and gofmt before sending a change.

Thanks

To everyone who has filed a bug report or sent a patch — it's a better tool because of you.