Daily meal journal using Cooklang markup. Reference example for Cook Editor plugin developers.

Meal Journal

A daily meal journal for Cook Editor. One file per day (Journal/2026-06-09.journal), written in Cooklang markup — sections for meals, recipe references, ingredients.

Today's journal entry with meal sections and recipe references, and the Insert Recipe Reference picker open

Features

Feature	How
Open (or create) today's entry	Status bar `Today` button, `Cmd+Shift+J`, or Journal: Open Today
Open yesterday's entry	Journal: Open Yesterday (offers to create it if missing)
Jump between entries	Chevron icons in the editor title, or Journal: Open Previous/Next Entry
Reference a recipe	Journal: Insert Recipe Reference — quick-pick of all `.cook` files
Snippets	Type `section` or `recipe` in any Cooklang file

New entries are created from a template (YAML frontmatter + = Breakfast / = Lunch / = Dinner sections). Customize it with the mealJournal.template setting (${date} and ${title} placeholders); change the folder with mealJournal.folder.

.journal files are associated with the Cooklang language, so they get the same highlighting, completion and hover as .cook files.

Development

npm install
npm test          # unit tests for the pure logic (src/journal-files.ts)
npm run deploy    # compile + copy to ../../editor/plugins/cooklang.meal-journal

Then start the editor: cd ../../editor && npm run start:electron.