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hlog is a log for humans: short, timestamped, append-only lines about your day, formatted like software logs. private until you share a level.

concepts

• key concepts — lines, levels, append-only, visibility, retention, tailing, refs

how to

• getting started — start your log and write your first lines
• share, retain, export, delete — make levels public, set retention, export or delete everything
• tail people & reference lines — follow someone, read your feed, manage followers, use refs
• the command line — log, tail and grep from your terminal
• the JSON API — append and read with an API token and curl
• connect an AI assistant — let Claude, ChatGPT or other MCP clients read and append
• show your log on your site — a small "recently learned" list for a blog or portfolio
• recipes: log from anywhere — a browser bookmarklet, voice, editor shortcuts, launchers, notes
• plain text & RSS — read any public log in a terminal or feed reader
• themes — terminal-style colors for how hlog looks to you

the short version of the rules is on about. the command line is open source on github.