diff --git a/.config/shell/functions/log b/.config/shell/functions/log
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# edit the system log located in the docs repo, but also find the docs repo based on what ~/todo points to
+log() {
+   $EDITOR "$(git -C "$(dirname "$(realpath ~/todo)")" rev-parse --show-toplevel)/system-log"
+}