I like the mkdir -p for each date, tho I might do that by day instead of year.

My scripts for writing, and recording audio:

(cd writes/journal/; vi $(date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S') -c 'startinsert')

arecord -D plughw:$1,0 ditties/$(date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S').wav -f FLOAT_LE -r 48000