Trophy Logbook – A Jekyll Journal

This is a variant of the Trophy Jekyll theme designed to be used as a personal logbook or journal. Since it is based on a blogging platform, it uses some of Jekyll's built-in functionality in very nonstandard ways. Your mileage will certainly vary.

If you have never heard of Jekyll, learn all about it here.

Features

• Jekyll's "tags" and "categories" have been hijacked to serve as person and place records, respectively. With help from jekyll archives, this allows for the automatic creation of records that answer such probing questions such as "How many times I have I really gone to Chipotle this year?" or "When was the last time I hung out with Jane?"
  • Additionally, by using Trophy's "_categories" folder, you can create a description and a picture to supplement these entries, much like a wiki. These entries are automatically updated to include the dates that you visited a place or met with a person.
• Automatically generated static maps using the Google Static Maps API. Simply add a street address or lat/lon coordinates to any entry.
  • A custom zoom level if you want to see the bigger picture.
• Easy extensibility and flexibility—it's just plain text.

"Features"

• The use of jekyll-archives for automatic creation of person and place records greatly improves the functionality of this project. However, that makes it incompatible with GitHub Pages. You can look at the original Trophy repo for a Pages-compatible solution.

Site Structure

From the home screen, the most visible elements are "days":

Days are comprised of individual entries, which are the posts contained in the _posts folder:

Posts can optionally contain people and person records, which create their own entries. By default, these entries only contain a list of all days for which they are in entries. However, by creating a sidecar file in the _categories folder, you can include metadata such as a picture and a description. These files should use a dash instead of a space in their name. See the _categories folder for examples, like this one:

Caveats

Feel free to leave comments and/or submit pull requests for obvious bugs, and I'll do my best. For things like major feature requests or changing how the site functions, I would suggest digging around in the code and seeing if you can build it yourself. In a sense, this project is provided "as-is."

License

Trophy Jekyll is licensed under the MIT License.