import datetime,os year = int(datetime.datetime.strftime(datetime.datetime.today(),"%Y")) monthstring = datetime.datetime.strftime(datetime.datetime.today(),"%m") datestring = datetime.datetime.strftime(datetime.datetime.today(),"%d") fileplace = "/home/mdd/Documents/drive/org/journal/" thisyear = year while year > 1993: year -= 1 target = fileplace + str(year) + "/" + monthstring + "/" + str(year) + "-" + monthstring + "-" + datestring + ".org" if os.path.exists(target): if year < thisyear -1: print("Press enter to continue") input() print(open(target,"r").read())