Jorgen is a custom journal tool that creates a printable PDF journal that can be easily folded and bound at home.
Jorgen is required by Offprint, a frontend web app for Jorgen.
To start using Jorgen, check out https://offprint.github.io/
Jorgen was not created to make buying journals, notebooks, diaries and the like obsolete - but rather to create an alternative option for those who want to be able to have full control over the page content of their journals. There are a few options available which all ready provide some of this functionality, unfortunately they fall short by either offering a limited amount of templates to choose from, or only allowing for the customization of cover and back, and not the actual page content.
There are customized journals from a variety of companies covering a range of different themes and topics, however these are few and far between and can be ridgley stuck to one specific field, or another.
Jorgen is designed to tackle the themes that haven't been created, and offer a way to create a journals more that is defined by you and specific to your needs - which is accomplished through a massive selection of templates that can be arrange, and added whenever and where ever you want them.
The Makefile associated with Jorgen has a few different options to allow you to quickly generate your notebook. The easiest way to get started is with this command.
Change the volume number and pages. Also you may want to open up Jorgen.py and edit the user_name
make VOL=1 PAGES=10 USER_NAME="Your Name" USER_EMAIL="Your Email"Jorgen needs some sort of menu to set various LaTeX, and markup options, as well as preferences associated with printing.
A tutorial on how to create your own templates would be useful - this can be accomplished by moving template settings out of the main generator into a seperate file.
With a seperate template file, templates could be quickly parsed by the generator to output the resulting notebook.
A major goal of the Jorgen project is to be able to one day scan the pages of a Jorgen Journal and have it automatically converted to text using Handwriting Recognition.
This tool is a work in progress, and is available to developers in the offhand repo.