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Journiv - Self Hosted Journal v0.1.0-beta.11 : Day One Import, Location and Weather, Tag Management and much more are here. (lemmy.world)
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Hello everyone!

Journiv is a self-hosted private journaling application that puts you in complete control of your personal reflections. Built with privacy and simplicity at its core, Journiv offers comprehensive journaling capabilities including mood tracking, prompt-based journaling, media uploads, analytics, and advanced search. All while keeping your data on your own infrastructure.

Journiv v0.1.0-beta.11 is out with

  • Day One Import - Own your data forever and import them from Day One
  • Location and Weather - Attach location and weather to your entries
  • Tags Management - Complete Tag management with tag based filtering and tag analytics
  • Auto Save - Never lose your entry in draft mode
  • Media de-duplication: Attach same media to multiple entries/journal without consuming more space.
  • Journiv Plus: Gives supporters additional features as a thank you for supporting the development of Journiv. Thanks to Kavita developer majora2007 for providing some guidance on this.
  • and many more features and bug fixes.

The Journey Ahead

Journiv is in active development, with a fully functional backend, a web frontend, and mobile apps launching soon. It is self-hosted, and designed to be your companion for decades.

Journiv is being built because our memories deserve to be ours, forever.

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[–] Pure_Psykosis@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Am I able to import notes from evernote or upnote? I switched to upnote recently but got a warning from them about not supporting grapheneos for much longer

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If this supported daylio (and the mood tracking that daylio uses), I would immediately switch.

[–] rockstar1215@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Daylio has been requested before (and I just saw it has 4 upvote, so I am guessing its pretty popular ?) https://github.com/journiv/journiv-app/issues/58

Daylio kind of mood tracking i.e. extensive with custom mood and with activities will come soon.

Import from Daylio is possible although I am not sure how much the demand is. The github repo has lot of import from request from different apps and import does take a lot of time to build as most apps have obscure formats and nuances to deal with or on purpose don't support simple portable formats to lock down user data. For example see the circus one has to go through to get meaning from Daylio export: https://www.joelotter.com/posts/2022/01/daylio/

[–] malr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh hell yeah on the Day One import! I’ve got 9 years of entries I want to take out of that ecosystem. I wish I wasn’t traveling for work, otherwise I’d get it installed and take it for a spin. Thanks for all the hard work!

[–] rockstar1215@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Congrats on liberating your memories and thoughts. I look forward to your feedback.

[–] Unfold1127@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I've been working on a journaling app for a couple months that uses CalDAV for syncing. I found out there's a underutilized part of the VCALENDAR component for journaling and couldn't find a good journaling app with sync that supported it. Got as far as a compotent TUI app, snyc, journal management, wrote a text editor. I am not a developer, btw, I'm a datacenter engineer. I've been working on edge-cases and dragging my feet on moving on to a GUI. But this honestly sounds so much better. And if there will be mobile apps, this is definitely going in my stack.

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

That sounds like a fun project. I did initially do some research in VJOURNAL but found it rather limiting for all the stuff I want to build in Journiv. I wrote a blogpost about it earlier: https://www.journiv.com/blog/why-journiv-doesnt-use-caldav The application is cross platform so it work as PWA and you can use it as mobile devices as PWA without any issues. Many Journiv users are already doing so. Native mobile apps are ready and will be coming soon once the project becomes sustainable to cover the development cost and expenses around it: https://github.com/orgs/journiv/discussions/184#discussioncomment-15180557

[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is Journiv still having issues with export? I couldn't get it to work (tried following all the stuff I could find about the export issues and folder permissions) - so I gave up. A shame because I like the app.

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

Can you clarify the export issue you are seeing or please report it on github? The export/import has been working well. I am guessing you might have tried it out with quickstart docker compose or Synology NAS guide from mariaus hosting which does not have complete docker compose i.e. it is missing celery-workers container which are needed to create import/export jobs and run them async. Couple of users tripped on this so I will be improving the error message to specifically say they need to run complete stack right not the error message is very cryptic low level detail which is hard for anyone to understand what went wrong.

[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks. I took another look at your documentation and decided to re-install everything. You're right, I'd used the simple "test" compose script from your site. After a little trial and error, I got everything working properly with this:

services:
  redis:
    image: redis:7-alpine
    container_name: journiv-redis
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /mnt/dietpi_userdata/docker-data/journiv/redis-data:/data
    command: redis-server --appendonly yes

  journiv:
    image: swalabtech/journiv-app:latest
    container_name: journiv
    ports:
      - "8111:8000"
    environment:
      - SECRET_KEY=XXX
      - DOMAIN_NAME=XXX
      - CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
      - CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND=redis://redis:6379/0
      - REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
    volumes:
      - /mnt/dietpi_userdata/docker-data/journiv/data:/data
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - redis

  celery-worker:
    image: swalabtech/journiv-app:latest
    container_name: journiv-celery-worker
    entrypoint: []
    command: ["celery", "-A", "app.core.celery_app", "worker", "--loglevel=info"]
    environment:
      - SECRET_KEY=XXX
      - DOMAIN_NAME=XXX
      - CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
      - CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND=redis://redis:6379/0
      - REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
    volumes:
      - /mnt/dietpi_userdata/docker-data/journiv/data:/data
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - redis
      - journiv

Exports are working!