I do the same using jrnl (http://maebert.github.io/jrnl http://maebert.github.io/jrnl), which lets you do things like star, tag, and view entries from specific

I do the same using jrnl (http://maebert.github.io/jrnl http://maebert.github.io/jrnl), which lets you do things like star, tag, and view entries from specific days - while still keeping everything in a plain text file.