Notebooks Journaling home โ€” diaries, farm journals, briefings (com.aschmid.notebooks)

The journaling system of record since 2026-06-07. All diaries, journals, and briefings live here as iCloud books โ€” one dated .md file per entry โ€” replacing the old flat files in ~/Sync/ED/.

  • Books at ~/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~com~aschmid~notebooks/Documents/<Book>/: Diary, Farm Journal, Bee Journal, Pond Journal, Planting Journal, Equipment Journal, Notes & Ideas, Morning Briefing, From Claude (reports Claude writes for Ed).
  • Single write path: ~/scripts/notebooks-entry.py โ€” every pipeline (dictation, daily briefing, Claude sessions) writes through it; never compose iCloud paths by hand.
  • Cron-readable mirror (2026-07-13): macOS TCC blocks cron/launchd from iCloud paths, so notebooks-entry.py write-throughs a mirror at ~/Sync/ED/.notebooks-mirror/<Book>/. Anything running from cron (the Ed dashboard builder, check-briefing-stale.sh) reads the mirror.
  • Dictation dash-commands route to books automatically (dash farm journal, dash bee journal, dash pond journal, โ€ฆ) โ€” see the dictation pipeline docs.
  • Web capture: the Notebooks clipper (bookmarklet/extension โ†’ note + PDF).