Hello everyone!
TL;DR:
Journiv is a a beautiful, self-hosted, privacy-first journaling app with mood tracking, daily prompts, and meaningful insights. The mission is simple: your memories should always stay yours. Own them, don’t rent them.
Journiv 0.1.0-beta.4 is now live on GitHub and fully Docker-hostable.
Start owning your thoughts and memories forever and keep them completely private.
The Story Behind Journiv
I got into self-hosting last year and while exploring options journaling solution, I realized there wasn’t a truly modern, self-hosted equivalent to Day One or Apple Journal. Most alternatives were either general note apps or old abandoned projects.
I wanted something focused on journaling with:
- “On This Day” memories
- Prompt-based journaling
- A clean, minimal, distraction-free writing experience
So… I built my own: Journiv, a beautiful (at least I am trying to make it so), self-hosted, privacy-first journaling app with mood tracking, daily prompts, and meaningful insights.
Get Involved
Give Journiv a try, share your feedback and report issues. It means a lot at this stage.
Looks interesting, was AI used in any of this?
Thank you. Yes, as a software engineer, not using AI for tasks where it can significantly accelerate development would be unrealistic. Much of the boilerplate code such as database ORM models, serialization/deserialization logic, and documentation was written with AI assistance, as mentioned in the project’s README. No developer writes such consistent and complete API docs :D. The architecture, UI/UX and harder aspects (see below) are done by me. It took me 2 months of late nights (hundreds of hours so far) and spending every minute outside of job and family on this and without AI would have taken much more. What you see now is the result of many iteration, refining the UI/UX, redesigning the database, and reworking the overall architecture, flighting with CORS configs make video player work on web in flutter etc etc... much of which isn’t visible from the outside.
Not sure I agree with some of the assertion made there but regardless thanks for the reply. I look forward to checking it out.
Thank you.