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.

    • rockstar1215@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3410·
      22 hours ago

      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.

      • CTDummy@piefed.socialEnglish
        20·
        22 hours ago

        Not sure I agree with some of the assertion made there but regardless thanks for the reply. I look forward to checking it out.

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        14·
        21 hours ago

        You sure it’s secure? How are you handling security? Sometimes AI can neglect security

        • rockstar1215@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          101·
          20 hours ago

          Please read the documentation linked in the ReadMe and you can try out all the security features.

          There are docs for auth model, the code around it, the limitation of in-mem tokens, the clear documentation around token handling, the code to support CORS, trusted host middleware, CSP, HSTS, rate limiting. You can read the env.template and configure and try it out. I doubt there are self hosted (vibe coded, ai-assisted or even non vibe coded) existing apps which have these security feature in v0.1 or even later.

          Like mentioned in comment and ReadMe the project is written with AI assistance not vibe coded or AI driven development. If you will read the code, look at design and db model you will find the answers you are seeking. Having said that I am always looking to make the project better so if you find anything which can be improved please open a PR.

          Thank you.