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+## Setup
+
+1. Clone this repository.
+2. Add `minion/bin` to your `PATH`.
+
+> `/usr/bin/bash` must be available, but does not need to be your default shell.
+
+Create a folder `~/Journal`.
+
+## Basic Usage
+
+Run `mn TOPIC DESCRIPTION` to start a new note file.
+A new file called `~/Jounal/2026/06-TOPIC-DESCRIPTION.md` will be opened in `vim`.
+
+Run `ml TOPIC` to list all notes with `TOPIC` in the file name, under `~/Journal/2026`.
+
+Run `mo TOPIC` to open all `.md` files in `~/Journal/2026` that contain `TOPIC` in the file name. 
+
+Use `mla` and `moa` variants to search all year folders in `~/Journal/`. (`~/Journal/2025`, `~/Journal/2026`, etc.)
+
+Run `mh` to see `help` further available commands.
+
+## Common Commands
+
+Tracking daily work
+
+`daily` - opens MM-daily.md to track things I want to check on each day.
+
+Organizing past notes files
+
+`ml 02-` list all journal files from February of this year.
+`mma 02-` archive all journal files from February of this year.
+`ml quantum` list all journal files with `quantum` in the name, this year.
+`mg quantum pqc` gather the content of all files with `quantum` or `pqc` in the name into a new `09-quantum.md` file, and archive the previous files into the `archive-2026` folder.
+
+
+## Recommended Usage
+
+- For ongoing daily work, I keep one file each month with `mn daily` and `mo 06-daily`.
+- For a random meeting, use `mn meeting topic with some key terms` to create `~/Journal/2026/06-meeting-topic-with-some-key-terms.md`
+- When too many old files match my favorite search term, I move old ones into `~/Journal/archive/2026`, where `mla` and `moa` can still find them, in a pinch.
+
+## Customizing
+
+`minion` will respect your `$EDITOR` setting. If `$EDITOR` is not set, `minion` will open files with `nano`.
+
+> `minion` will *not* judge you if $EDITOR is not set to `vi`.
+
+You could modify the scripts to change the journal home folder, which defaults to `$HOME/Journal`.
+
+## Advanced Features
+
+- To use `mp` to open files as HTML, install [mdtohtml](https://github.com/sgaunet/mdtohtml/releases) and ensure it is on your PATH.
+- To use `ms` to run an interactive spelling check on all matching files, install [aspell](https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/aspell/aspell.1.en.html) and ensure it is on your PATH.
+