diff --git a/config.org b/config.org
index a0d6969..26f8d29 100644
--- a/config.org
+++ b/config.org
@@ -210,7 +210,14 @@ For [[https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal][org-journal]] I want weekly entrie
 
 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (after! org-journal
-  (setq org-journal-file-type 'weekly))
+  (setq org-journal-date-format "%A (%d/%m/%Y)")
+  (setq org-journal-file-type 'weekly)
+  (setq org-journal-file-format "%Y-%m-%d.org")
+
+  ;; see `org-journal-dir-and-format->regex' documentation
+  (setq org-journal-file-pattern (org-journal-dir-and-format->regex
+                                  org-journal-dir org-journal-file-format))
+  (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist (cons org-journal-file-pattern 'org-journal-mode)))
 #+END_SRC
 
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