Comment by Sambhavi Dhanabalan on "The Python Five Minute Journal"

Very well written, it was a delight to read it. I loved your idea of building an app when the journal ran out of pages.

I'm a huge advocate of building things that solve our day to day problems. But it has never crossed my mind to build a software equivalent of a physical version of something. It has always been building an app when nothing existed prior to that.

After reading your post, I'll also be watchful of building something as a replacement of something else, even if it's a physical object. Thanks for provoking such ideas.

Let me also see if I can contribute to your git repo in any way.

Thank you Sambhavi Dhanabalan! I am thrilled that the article is inspiring you.

I am currently making some small improvements to the script and one of them is adding localization. I will include English, Spanish and Portuguese. It is very easy because its just a couple of questions and responses.

Maybe you could add a language. I will let you know when localization is added and then it is just a matter of adding a new file for a language.

Thank you for your willingness to contribute. 🙂

Sure. Please do keep me posted when localization is added.

Sambhavi Dhanabalan I added localization this afternoon. I had never done this in a Python application, so it was nice to learn how to set it up.

There are instructions on the readme.md file. It's super simple.

That's so cool and fast Osvaldo Brignoni. Let me fork your repo sometime today or tomorrow, and get started.

Osvaldo Brignoni - Just submitted a PR. Added a locale for Swedish.

Sambhavi Dhanabalan Thank you! I merged it!

Osvaldo Brignoni Great! You plan to make a product roadmap? If yes, let me know, I can also share my ideas, and take up a few.

Hello Sambhavi Dhanabalan

I don't have a roadmap. I do have some ideas I'd like to add.

Stats command. After a months of accumulating journals, the command would parse the files and generate some simple statistics. That way you can see what you've had on your mind the most.
Post save hook. Allow to configure a command that runs each time a journal is saved. For example: I might want to automatically commit and push a backup of the journals to a private repo, on save. This one is fairly simple to add. I might do this first.

Your ideas are welcome! Please create a Github issue for each idea you have and we can discuss it there.

Thank you!

Osvaldo Brignoni Sure, will do.

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