I decided to make this site English-first, so I updated my Doom Emacs workflow for Zola notes and journals.

Notes now default to notes/<unixtime>/index.md (English). When index.md is open, my setup opens index.ja.md if it exists, or creates it if it doesn’t. Journals still default to .md, and with a prefix key they open or create .ja.md.

This makes writing in both English and Japanese much smoother and significantly reduces manual file operations.