Introduction

Meet GitDiaryBot, a Telegram bot. It helps writing a plain text diary synchronized by Git. When you send a message to GitDiaryBot, it:

  1. Pulls your Git repository.
  2. Appends the message to the end of a diary file.
  3. Commits and pushes new version back to your Git repository.

Who wants it?

If you are journaling in a simple text file, Telegram can make it easier to quickly add new records. Optionally, you can configure Google API token, to transcribe voice message and add addresses to location messages.

Install GitDiaryBot

  1. Add GitDiaryBot to your Telegram account.
  2. If your Diary is hosted on GitHub in private repository, add GitDiaryBot as collaborator to the repository in Settings > Manage Access > Invite collaborators.
  3. Send a message to the bot following this template: 
    /start git@github.com:username/repository.git

Grant Access

GitDiaryBot supports several ways for providing access:

  1. For diaries hosted on GitHub as private repositories, add GitDiaryBot as a collaborator in Settings -> Manage Access.
  2. For diaries hosted on GitLab as private repositories, invite GitDiaryBot in Settings -> Members.
  3. For other kinds of hosting platforms, add the following public SSH key:
ssh-rsa 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 GitDiaryBot

Self-hosting

GitDiaryBot is written in modern Python, see self-hosting instructions for more details.