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Meet Journiv! A Self-Hosted, Privacy-First Journaling App (Day One/Apple Journal Alternative) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by rockstar1215@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] terminal@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Nice looking project. Will there be amy export/backup functionality? I wouldnt want to keep a journal in a young project that doesnt have some sort of migration option.

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

Thanks. Export will be added pretty soon. As of now you can export entries in PDF as that was one of the most requested feature. Since the beauty of self hosting is that all the data lives on your machine. You have it with you all the time. It is just a database (sqllite or postgres) and all your media files under a directory. Back up is pretty simple you just backup the docker volume or the bind mount directory which is standard for docker.

Although I do want to add a more human accessible export output which people who do not want to deal with db can use.

What kind of export would you like to see?

[–] terminal@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anything that would be considered plaintext (markdown, org, etc…) or something easily portable like html export.

I always think about these things in the sense of how would i pass this journal on to less technically capable family members if it became necessary.

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

Cool. Makes sense. Can I request you to open a issue on github to track this? Thanks.