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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.

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Give Journiv a try, share your feedback and report issues. It means a lot at this stage.

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[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Any way to set this up without docker? Couldnt find anything in the docs

[–] rockstar1215@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hello, Thanks for your interest. It is possible but a little work as it will require one to have Python interpreter installed and do few things to run it. Yes, thise instructions are not there. I will add them. Do you have Python installed?

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know how to selfhost stuff, I just dont want to deal with docker

[–] rockstar1215@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

non-docker ways will come later. Stay tuned!