add daylog show --all to view/concatenate all logs

[suft]

First off, thanks for daylog. I came across it recently and it fit really naturally into how I keep notes.

Feature request

It'd be great to have a way to view all logs concatenated together, similar to a changelog, e.g. daylog show --all, printed in reverse-chronological (or chronological) order.

Current workaround

Since I'm only using the default project at the moment, I'm shadowing daylog with a shell function that finds every log.md under the data dir, sorts them, and pipes through glow for a nice terminal view:

daylog() {
  if [[ "$1" == "all" ]]; then
    find "$(command daylog info)" -name log.md | sort | xargs cat | glow -
  else
    command daylog "$@"
  fi
}

This works fine, but it'd be nice to have it built-in, both for discoverability (daylog --help vs. needing a custom shell function) and so it works consistently across projects.

Example output

Possible shape

• daylog show --all, concatenate all logs, oldest to newest (or a --reverse flag for newest-first)
• Maybe a date header per entry (## 2026-07-11) so it reads like a changelog
• Could also pair nicely with a --since/--until range for partial views, if that's ever wanted

Happy to take a stab at a PR if this is a direction you'd want, just wanted to raise it first in case there's a reason it's intentionally left out, or a different shape you had in mind.

[notnmeyer]

hey there 👋 i like it. id never really thought about it, my workflow is usually to daylog copy at the end of the day and paste it somewhere else. seems like a great addition though.

the flags might need some more thought though, since theyre only applicable with --all. not a huge fan of enforcing flag combinations. maybe there's enough there that it could use its own subcommand?

• daylog show-all — could be aliased to sa
• daylog show-all --reverse
• daylog show-all --from <blah> --until <blah> (inclusive)
• daylog show-all -o/--output (text|md) should work too, but im surprised to see i didn't set up --output globally. i wouldn't worry about this one. ill fix it separately for everything.

also, i think show-all is incompatible with providing a time references like, daylog show-all -- tomorrow obviously makes no sense. so i think we'd want to error if you tried to do that. ignoring the reference would feel weird.

Maybe a date header per entry (## 2026-07-11) so it reads like a changelog

i think we'd just print exactly what's in the log. it already inserts a date heading by default when creating a new log, (# 2026/07/11). or at least, i wouldn't want this as the default behavior.

you're welcome to take a swing at a pr.

[notnmeyer]

im not married to show-all as the command, there might be a better one.