diff --git a/.config/shell/functions/log b/.config/shell/functions/log
index e5d990f..a952630 100644
--- a/.config/shell/functions/log
+++ b/.config/shell/functions/log
@@ -2,5 +2,14 @@
 
 # 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"
+   DOCS_REPO="${DOCS_REPO:-$(git -C "$(dirname "$(realpath ~/todo)")" rev-parse --show-toplevel)}"
+   LOG_FILE=system-log
+   LOG_FILE_PATH="$DOCS_REPO/$LOG_FILE"
+
+   if git -C "$DOCS_REPO" pull; then
+      $EDITOR "$LOG_FILE_PATH"
+      git -C "$DOCS_REPO" commit -m "$LOG_FILE" "$LOG_FILE_PATH"
+   else
+      $EDITOR "$LOG_FILE_PATH"
+   fi
 }