From d6393efb45a73a7074fb948e7e517d01eb33626e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ayo <ayo@ayco.io>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:05:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: use initial config file

---
 .gitignore     | 2 ++
 example.config | 1 +
 journal.sh     | 5 ++++-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 example.config

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 86e5b9b..17399ad 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 *~
 *swo
 *swp
+
+.config
diff --git a/example.config b/example.config
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7c89936
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example.config
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+journal_base="${HOME}/notes/Journal"
diff --git a/journal.sh b/journal.sh
index b36794c..0134342 100755
--- a/journal.sh
+++ b/journal.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 #! /usr/bin/bash
 
-journal_dir="${HOME}/notes/Journal"
+# Load config
+. ./.config
+
+journal_dir=$journal_base
 month_dir=$(date +"%m %b")
 file_name=$(date +'%m.%d.%Y').md
 full_path="${journal_dir}/${month_dir}/${file_name}"