several snippets of useful jq knowledge

Here are some links that helped me to figure out how to take multiple JSON files (that I am going to want to generate from jrnl) and combine them. Because of that, I also needed to make sure that I could remove duplicate (time …

Mermaid - Mermaid is a Diagramming tool for everyone.

It does flowcharts, class diagrams, sequence, state, entity, gantt, and others that seem to be pretty useful.

It seems that there are some VSCode plugins that support this. Markdown Preview Mermain Support is one such. There are others for creating PDF files …

How to export specific data from jrnl to jq md format

#### this needs to be run in cmd-grid to work as intended
md -v jqmdraw -contains "RWS-5760"

#### the actual jrnl command would need to be something like the following
#### with the assumption that you have the other files as well …

Various ways to create a PDF from Markdown

The following sections assume that you want to use a script (or within a script) to do the conversion. There are probably other tools out there that can be used at the command-line for doing that as well.

So, if you need …

Found a couple of good links that have some decent information on Markdown (though which flavor is up for grabs):

• Markdown code block - supported languages?
• CodeMirror - language mode some good ones here. A couple that I like, in particular:
  • diff
  • shell (what I would suppose is bash)
  • yaml
• MacDown supported …

Here is the json to text conversion, that was part of the view jrnl project, but I couldn't get working for some reason when I tried it.

Anyway, had some time today and decided that I should try it, as it would be very helpful to know how to do …

It seems that if you use a code block (doesn't seem to matter if it's a 'named' block or not (i.e. javascript, bash, etc)), but if you have:

    ```
    ---
    something here
    ```

Then, it will mess your Markdown up pretty royally! You have to do something like the following:

    ```

    --- (note blank …

Here are some sites that document how to do different things (since I always forget some of them):

• Daring Fireball Markdown
• MUD Markdown Cheat Sheet
• Markdown Help
• Markdown Cheatsheet
• Markdown Cheat Sheet

All are good and some have things others don't.

Some of the features I tend to want to …

Here is a site that has a maybe marginally useful utility (I'll see after I try it for awhile). mdless: Better Markdown in Terminal.

It is basically only useful for a presentation and you have to learn a different format from Markdown to do what you want. It's not bad and I like it, but it adds another layer on top of your Markdown document. -> mdp <-.