# Making Journal Entries Findable **URL:** \ **Category:** How To\ **Created:** [September 10, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/making-journal-entries-findable/733 "2020-09-10T15:36:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jgoerzen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jgoerzen](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/jgoerzen)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/making-journal-entries-findable/733/1 "2020-09-10T15:36:35Z")
Hi folks, I’ve been using org-mode for a long time, and have more recently been adopting org-roam (thanks!) Before org-roam, I’d have a “[notes.org](http://notes.org)” file that would have date-based notes I could put in there. For instance, if a bank or a school called me, I’d quickly hit org capture for a note. It would let me enter a headline and some notes. Later, it would be very easy to hit C-c a s and hit a keyword and poof, there are my notes from every time I talked to the bank about something. I’d rather do all this within org-roam, to facilitate linking in both directions with org-roam topics. I have org-journal configured for org-roam in the usual way. org-journal creates a new org-roam topic for each day. The problem is: I may have three unrelated things on that day. Setting the tags for the overall file doesn’t make much sense, since there’s unrelated stuff in there. org-roam doesn’t seem to search on headlines or :tags: within the file. I can’t just find all my bank-related notes easily. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![raamdev](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/raamdev/32/352_2.png) [@raamdev](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/raamdev)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/making-journal-entries-findable/733/2 "2020-09-15T21:49:07Z")
I’ve also been struggling with a similar transition in adapting my journaling to accommodate keeping notes with org-roam. Before I started using org-roam, I had been using a single journal file with an org-capture template set to use a `file+olp+datetree` target to keep my journal in a `journal-2020.org` file. Then I’d use `C-s`, `C-r`, or `C-c \` to search the entire journal file. But then I switched to using `org-journal` with a one-file-per-day journal system (e.g., today’s file is called `2020-09-15.org`), which is nice because I can link to notes created with org-roam and the backlinks lead right to the journal for that day. Searching across _only_ my journal entries is what has been tricky, however two things have helped: [Deft](https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/) and `org-journal-search`; [org-journal-search](https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal#searching-the-journal) is part of org-journal and it’s an awesome feature that I only discovered in the process of writing this comment! 🎉 Maybe this helps? ---
**Author:** ![jgoerzen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jgoerzen](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/jgoerzen)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 1:18am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/making-journal-entries-findable/733/3 "2020-09-16T01:18:08Z")
Hi! Thanks for these ideas. One of the things I want is the ability to search on any combination of tags. org-journal-search doesn’t quite do that. Deft can, reasonably enough, and might just be a fine answer for me here. Deft is a bit on the slow side and I worry about how thousands of more journal entries will do, but perhaps I should save that problem for another day! Doom Emacs also has the SPC n s menu to search through the notes. Like Deft but faster somehow. I found that I could mix tags in there with :tag1 :tag2 as the search string and it did the right thing. Thanks for the nudge in the right direction!