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.
Learn More
- Spin up Journiv
- Watch other demo videos
- Want to just try a demo? https://demo.almostadatacenter.com/ (Thanks to JasonFieldz for hosting a demo instance): username: demo@test.com password: Demo1234
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!
Congrats on liberating your memories and thoughts. I look forward to your feedback.
I’d love if this had end to end encryption so I could host it on my VPS. Is this on the roadmap?
Hello, Encryption at rest is in on roadmap. End to end encryption is very time intensive to build correctly and would be an overkill for a large percentage of users who are self hosting Journiv so as of now there are no plans for e2e.
ok thanks for the reply. I understand that this would take very much work but I wouldn’t be comfortable hosting something with potentially very sensitive data on a remote server where the admins could see the files. Unfortunately hosting on my Raspberry Pi at home isn’t possible because of this error when starting the docker containers (which seems to be a Raspberry issue).
What is the difference between your encryption at rest and disk/file system encryption? Would the use case be that someone stealing the server couldn’t access the files?
That makes sense. As of now I have not considered the VPS approach you mentioned but only thought of self hosting but I can see how in VPS world it is not safe. Encryption at rest can be obtained by various means
- Have the disk encrypted like you said.
- Have the db encrypt by a admin provided secret but in this case all users of instance share that secret and admin can technically decrypt other user data.
- Have the app do encryption based on user provided password. This gives per user secret and encryption. So encryption at rest will be something among this preferably (3) one.
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.
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
Thank you for the reply. I really enjoyed reading all of the blog posts you have on the site. I really enjoy what you’re doing with the project and look forward to becoming a contributing patron soon. I’m genuinely surprised at the polish and well thought out development with so very little support given so far. I had a question regarding performance in Trivalent, but didn’t know if I should field that here or in github or possibly somewhere else. If you can let me know, I’d really appreciate it.
Thanks. Yes, I am hoping the support grows and the project becomes sustainable to grow. Sure, anywhere is fine.
This sounds cool. Is speech to text, with saved audio and linked transcript part of the roadmap?
Hello, yes it is.
Amazing, thanks.
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
No that is not supported. Journiv is not a note taking app and a journal app and the focus is to build it as a journal app even if it limits its target audience. There are many note taking apps out there and many in self hosted world. My personal favorite is Obsidian which I am happy with.