weft

weft — a daily-journal-driven knowledge base for the terminal

Journals are the warp — the continuous daily timeline you lay down. [[wiki-links]] are the weft — the cross-threads you weave across into pages. The fabric is your knowledge base, and weft is the terminal tool for keeping it: a recency-sorted page picker (with page-creation), ripgrep-backed full-text search, backlinks (linked and unlinked), and a cross-graph dashboard of your open tasks (TODO/DOING/LATER/WAITING) — because a journal tool that can't surface your open loops is incomplete.

One linking primitive — [[wiki-links]], no tags. Pages are flat markdown under pages/ and journals/, with ___ for namespaces and no nested directories to manage. weft is a navigator, not an outliner: it renders your bullets, workflow markers, and links, but it never makes you tend the tree — no fold/unfold, no block refs, no zoom.

Press e to edit the current page in a full-screen in-app editor (Ctrl+S saves, Esc exits with an unsaved-changes prompt); E hands the file to your $EDITOR. While editing, typing [[ opens a live, fuzzy-filtered page-name completion list — ↑/↓ to choose, Enter or Tab to insert [[Page Name]], Esc to dismiss; an unmatched name shows a ＋ Create row to drop a red link in one keystroke. Press . to jump to today's journal.

Press S to sync the graph with git without leaving weft — it commits any changes, pull --rebases, then pushes, reporting progress in the status bar (⟳ syncing… → ✓ synced). A ● shows in the status bar whenever the graph has local changes that aren't committed or pushed yet, so you always know when a sync is due. Conflicts are left for you to resolve in a shell — weft never touches a conflicted tree.

Already keep a Logseq graph? weft reads it as-is — the on-disk format (flat .md, YYYY_MM_DD journals, [[wiki-links]], TODO-style bullets) is adapted from Logseq's. But weft is its own tool, not a Logseq client.

Install

Requires Go 1.26+ and ripgrep 14+ on PATH (the --json output format that the search view consumes was added in rg 14).

go install git.fiatcode.dev/fiatcode/weft/v2/cmd/weft@latest

Or from source:

git clone https://git.fiatcode.dev/fiatcode/weft
cd weft
go build ./cmd/weft

Usage

weft --graph /path/to/graph    # explicit path
WEFT_GRAPH=/path/to/graph weft # via env var
weft -version                  # print version and exit

A graph path is required — either pass --graph or set $WEFT_GRAPH. The flag wins when both are set. Drop the env var into your shell config for the zero-arg invocation.

Keys

Press ? from the page view at any time to see a grouped keymap inside the app.

What gets rendered

• [[wiki-links]] are styled inline, navigable with n/N, and follow with Enter. Aliased links ([[Target|alias]]) show the alias.
• Workflow markers at the start of a bullet are colour-coded (TODO red, DOING yellow, LATER blue, WAITING dim, DONE green, CANCELED/CANCELLED strikethrough, NOW magenta).
• :LOGBOOK: ... :END: blocks are hidden — they're metadata, not content.
• Long bullets wrap with hanging indent, so continuation lines align with the text after the bullet rather than under the bullet glyph.
• Backlinks (b) shows two sections: Linked references ([[…]] mentions) followed by Unlinked references — bare-text mentions of the page name that aren't yet wiki-linked. Enter on either section jumps to the mention's page and lands on the reference itself: a linked backlink focuses the back-reference [[link]] (cursor on it, scrolled into view), and an unlinked reference highlights the bare-text mention and scrolls it into view. Self-references are always excluded.

Environment

Scope

Writes graph files only via the in-app editor (e, saves on Ctrl+S) and the $EDITOR handoff (E); the . key creates today's journal if it doesn't exist, and the picker can create a new page by name. Press S to sync the whole graph with git (commit → pull --rebase → push); it runs against the graph directory and degrades to a status-bar hint if that directory isn't a git repository. No fold/unfold, no filesystem-watch live reload (use R).

What is not supported

A few Logseq features are intentionally out of scope for v1. None of them crash weft — they degrade to plain text or a silent no-op.

• {{query …}} and {{embed …}} blocks are stripped from the rendered page (Glamour can't render them usefully).
• Block references [[page#block]] resolve to page; the #block fragment is dropped.
• alias:: / title:: / tags:: properties are not extracted — they appear as plain text in the page body.
• Case-insensitive linking is not enforced. [[alpha]] on a page called Alpha resolves correctly.
• pages/ or journals/ subdirectories are skipped with a stderr warning. Namespace pages must use the ___ filename convention.
• The TODO dashboard shows only open markers (TODO / LATER / DOING / WAITING). DONE / CANCELED / NOW bullets are styled on the page but never appear in the dashboard.