Journal comes with links I don't want

DEVONthink
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Journaling comes with links to NY TImes which is a pay service - I do not want to see those daily news, and I see no way to get rid of them

2

There’s no NY Times links in my journal notes

It would be useful if you share how you are journaling
I suspect you create journal notes by launching the DT journal template
which includes script code for the NY Times
In which case, you might want to create your own templatec

3

Yes, template
Daily Journal: Markdown or Text, what is the difference?

4

You can make your own template. I searched this forum for you and quickly found:

The little magnifying glass icon, upper right, is useful.

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To get you started, I modified the AppleScript to return headlines as Markdown links, and changed the source to news.google.com. I also added and additional fetch of a few headlines from an SF Bay-local news feed.

property headerColor : {40000, 20000, 0}
property blackColor : {0, 0, 0}
property dateColor : {30000, 30000, 30000}
property numHeadlines : 4

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use scripting additions

tell application "Finder" to set pathToAdditions to ((path to application id "DNtp" as string) & "Contents:Resources:Template Script Additions.scpt") as alias
set helperLibrary to load script pathToAdditions

tell application id "DNtp"
	set myNews to {}
	try
		set getNewsSource to download markup from "https://news.google.com/rss?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:enl"
		-- set getNewsSource to download markup from "feed://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
		set getNewsFeed to items 1 thru numHeadlines of (get items of feed getNewsSource)
		repeat with theItems in getNewsFeed
			set end of myNews to "[" & title of theItems & "]"
			set end of myNews to "(" & link of theItems & ")"
		end repeat
	end try
	try
		set getNewsSource to download markup from "https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/feed/bay-area-news-429.php"
		set getNewsFeed to items 1 thru numHeadlines of (get items of feed getNewsSource)
		repeat with theItems in getNewsFeed
			set end of myNews to "[" & title of theItems & "]"
			set end of myNews to "(" & link of theItems & ")"
		end repeat
	end try
	return myNews
end tell

Note: this script is actually a stand-alone, as I actually assemble my journal entries using components generated by Keyboard Maestro. But you can see how it’s done and roll your own DEVONthink template.

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