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@@ -21,6 +21,20 @@ Use `mla` and `moa` variants to search all year folders in `~/Journal/`. (`~/Jou
 
 Run `mh` to see `help` further available commands.
 
+## Common Commands
+
+Tracking daily work
+
+`daily` - opens MM-daily.md to track things I want to check on each day.
+
+Organizing past notes files
+
+`ml 02-` list all journal files from February of this year.
+`mma 02-` archive all journal files from February of this year.
+`ml quantum` list all journal files with `quantum` in the name, this year.
+`mg quantum pqc` gather the content of all files with `quantum` or `pqc` in the name into a new `09-quantum.md` file, and archive the previous files into the `archive-2026` folder.
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+
 ## Recommended Usage
 
 - For ongoing daily work, I keep one file each month with `mn daily` and `mo 06-daily`.
@@ -34,3 +48,9 @@ Run `mh` to see `help` further available commands.
 > `minion` will *not* judge you if $EDITOR is not set to `vi`.
 
 You could modify the scripts to change the journal home folder, which defaults to `$HOME/Journal`.
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+## Advanced Features
+
+- To use `mp` to open files as HTML, install [mdtohtml](https://github.com/sgaunet/mdtohtml/releases) and ensure it is on your PATH.
+- To use `ms` to run an interactive spelling check on all matching files, install [aspell](https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/aspell/aspell.1.en.html) and ensure it is on your PATH.
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