Can I export in a "diary" format?

[boldandbusted]

Thanks for this amazing project! :)

A current project I'm on is where I'm acting as a "user persona", and I'm writing something like a "Dear Diary" set of notes. I'd like to create a unified single-file output (PDF & Markdown primary outputs, HTML, maybe LibreOffice formats) that has all of my individual notes concatenated, with metadata headers (timestamp, maybe others?) wrapping the content, like:

(Rough draft - just for illustration)

# Notebook titled <notebook title>
## Friday, June 30th, 2023 at 2:13 PM ET, Mr. Bold A. Busted wrote:

<content>

## Monday July 3rd, 2023 at 11:30 AM ET, Mr. Bold A. Busted wrote:

<content>

Is this already possible? Thanks again for nb! :) Really loving it after discovering it last week! :)

[boldandbusted]

Should I create a "Feature Request" in Issues for this? :) This one feature would make nb just perfect for my present use-case. If there's some quick scripts I should consider creating (like a python code and relevant modules), I'm open to that, too. (And maybe those could go into a "contrib" subdirectory?)

[xwmx]

@boldandbusted Glad you like it! This could be implemented as a plugin. You could just iterate over each file in the current or target notebook, write to a big markdown file, and use pandoc for the conversions. No need to create a feature request. I can envision how it could look in shell and can try to implement it at some point if you haven't already by then.

[boldandbusted]

@xwmx I'll have to dig into the plugin system a bit more - it looks straightforward, but... it is as simple as the *NIX shell! ;)