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VS Code Journal — Commands and Keybindings

Press F1 or Ctrl+Shift+P and type journal to browse all commands. Most functionality is also reachable from the smart input (Ctrl+Shift+J).

Keybindings

Command ID Win / Linux Mac when clause Description
journal.day Ctrl+Shift+J Cmd+Shift+J — Open the smart input (journal entry, note, memo, task)
journal.printDuration Ctrl+J D Cmd+J D editorTextFocus && editorHasMultipleSelections Print elapsed hours between two selected timestamps
journal.printSum Ctrl+J S Cmd+J S editorTextFocus && editorHasMultipleSelections Print sum of selected numbers
journal.openPrevious Ctrl+J , Cmd+J , editorTextFocus Open the previous journal entry relative to the current file
journal.openNext Ctrl+J . Cmd+J . editorTextFocus Open the next journal entry relative to the current file

The when clause controls whether the binding is active. editorHasMultipleSelections means two or more non-empty selection ranges must exist (e.g. select two timestamps with Alt+Click before using Ctrl+J D). editorTextFocus means a text editor must be focused.

Command reference

Journal Pages

  • journal.day — Opens the smart input. See Smart Input for the full syntax.
  • journal.today — Jump directly to today's journal entry (no input dialog).
  • journal.yesterday — Jump directly to yesterday's journal entry (no input dialog).
  • journal.tomorrow — Jump directly to tomorrow's journal entry (no input dialog).
  • journal.memo — Enter Quick Memo. Alias for journal.day; registered as a separate command so you can bind it to a dedicated key for memo-only workflows.
  • journal.openPrevious — Open the previous journal entry relative to the file currently in focus. When no journal file is open, navigation starts from today. Behavior is controlled by journal.navigation.mode (see Settings):
    • existing (default) — skip gaps and open the previous entry that exists on disk. Shows an info toast at the start of history.
    • calendar — step exactly one day back and create the entry if missing.
  • journal.openNext — Mirror of journal.openPrevious for forward navigation.

Notes & Memos

  • journal.note — Open a dialog to enter the title of a new note page.

Open the journal

  • journal.open — Start a new VS Code window with the journal base directory as workspace root.

Print commands

  • journal.printTime — Insert the current time at the cursor position.
  • journal.printDuration — Compute the elapsed hours between two selected timestamps (select both with Alt+Click, then press Ctrl+J D).
  • journal.printSum — Sum all selected numbers (select with Alt+Click, then press Ctrl+J S).

See Print commands for examples.

How to rebind

Open File → Preferences → Keyboard Shortcuts (or Cmd+K Cmd+S on Mac), search for journal, and click the pencil icon next to any binding. To set bindings in keybindings.json directly:

{
  "key": "ctrl+j n",
  "command": "journal.note",
  "when": "true"
}

Replace journal.note with any command ID from the table above. The when clause is optional — omit it to make the binding unconditional.

Localization

Command titles and user-facing prompts are localized via vscode.l10n. The extension ships translations for: en, de, fr, es, it, pt, nl, ru, zh, ja, ar. For any other locale VS Code falls back to English.