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.

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.