Doing File

The file that stores all of your entries is generated the first time you add an entry (with doing now or doing later). By default, the file is created in ~/what_was_i_doing.md, but you can modify this in the config file.

The format of the "doing" file is TaskPaper-compatible. You can edit it by hand at any time (in TaskPaper or any text editor), but it uses a specific format for parsing, so be sure to maintain the dates and pipe characters.

Notes are anything in the list without a leading hyphen and date. They belong to the entry directly before them, and they should be indented one level beyond the parent item.

When using the now and later commands on the command line, you can start the entry with a quote and hit return, then type the note and close the quote. Anything after the first line will be turned into a TaskPaper-compatible note for the task and can be displayed in templates using %note.

Notes can be prevented from ever appearing in output with the global option --no-notes: doing --no-notes show all.

Auto tagging (adding tags listed in .doingrc under autotag and default_tags) can be skipped for an entry with the -x global option: doing -x done skipping some automatic tagging.