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I've been tracking various git actions (commits and branch creates and checkouts) in a file via git hooks for the past year or so and it's been super valuable to go back and look at, especially to remind myself what I was doing yesterday for standup meetings.

This is far and away a better solution, since I can have `jrnl` auto-tag those things and filter them in/out when I want to look at regular journal entries.

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I've seen this alias floating around git recipes. It doesn't do anything for many of your actions, but I've found it useful:

standup = log --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cD) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --since yesterday --author <Your Name>

Yeah, this is great for commits, but I've found that I personally commit in sort of random patterns, and I'll stash rather than commit when I'm temporarily switching tasks that need a branch change.

That's probably a really bad habit, but journaling branch changes helps me quite a bit.

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