A fast, lightweight CLI for journaling directly from your terminal.

Use it as your dev log for standups, as a timestamped journal, or even as an instant memo.

You can download the latest pre-compiled binary for your operating system from the GitHub Releases page.

1. Download the archive for your OS and architecture.
2. Extract the llog binary.
3. Move the binary to a directory in your system's PATH (e.g., /usr/local/bin on macOS/Linux).

If you have the Go toolchain installed, you can install llog with a single command.

go install github.com/ethn1ee/llog@latest

(Ensure $HOME/go/bin is in your PATH)

You can also build llog from source if you have Go installed.

# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/ethn1ee/llog.git
cd llog

# 2. Build the binary
go build -o llog .

# 3. Move the binary to your PATH (optional)
# For example:
# mv llog /usr/local/bin/

Here are the main commands for llog. For a full list of flags, you can run llog [command] --help.

Adds one or more new log entries.

llog add "Finished the project proposal." "Feeling accomplished."

Retrieves log entries. This command has two modes:

1. Get by ID(s): Provide one or more entry IDs as arguments.

   llog get 123 124

2. Get by Filters: Use flags to filter entries. If no flags are provided, it returns the last 10 entries.

   # Get the last 5 entries
   llog get --limit 5
   
   # Get all entries from today
   llog get --today
   
   # Get all entries from a specific date range
   llog get --from 2025-09-01 --to 2025-09-18

Deletes log entries. This command also has two modes:

1. Delete by ID(s): Provide one or more entry IDs as arguments.

   llog delete 123 124

2. Delete by Filters: Use flags to specify which entries to delete.

   # Delete the last 5 entries
   llog delete --limit 5
   
   # Delete all entries from yesterday
   llog delete --yesterday

Generates a summary of your log entries for a given period with Gemini. (GEMINI_API_KEY environmnet variable required)

# Summarize today's entries
llog summarize --today

# Summarize entries from a specific date range
llog summarize --from 2025-09-01 --to 2025-09-18