Tony Crowe Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 I've journaled a number of different ways but I kinda felt like making a quick app for it. Journal: https://github.com/tcrowe/journal Right now it includes only the most basic functionality of journal entries by month. In the future I want to support a few more features like theming and search. This is not a big, fancy, production piece so you'll probably be let down if you expect a lot. I am also seeking peer review and collaboration if anyone wants to jam on it. Requisite Skills ------------------- HTML CSS Bo-staff skills JavaScript Coffee Script It may interest you that there is a JSON data storage module behind this project. The journal was a way for me to do some practical testing on it. splash: https://github.com/tcrowe/splash If you want to talk about it please send me a message via this message board. If you want to post bugs please use the issues page on github.
Tony Crowe Posted September 24, 2013 Author Posted September 24, 2013 Just to update the status of this project, I've been using this journal for about a week and it's been a good experience. I think the simplicity and robustness of the software is important so that it instills confidence that I can type and not lose the information. The data is stored as JSON files which are sorted by month. Backing up the information is simple. Transforming or converting the data to another format would be simple for a novice programmer. I hope that helps. I think my next post will be a demo image so you all can see what this thing looks like.
Rob_Ilir Posted September 24, 2013 Posted September 24, 2013 Hi TonyWould it be possible to add one of those "update" features similar to antivirus and windows, to remind you that its been x days since you last wrote? Imo it would be excellent for the procrastinators, in case they could manually change the reminders.
Tony Crowe Posted September 24, 2013 Author Posted September 24, 2013 Hey Rob that is an interesting concept of a reminder to journal. I think a lot of times when wrapped up in the day-to-day a reminder to get in touch with my feelings would be helpful. For that particular purpose I would probably want to rely on my existing calendar, like the one on my phone, rather than replicating that functionality in the journal app. I wonder if there is anything that a person can wear that detects stress or relaxation and could send an alert based on that. Let the mood ring tell you when it's time. lol!
Tony Crowe Posted October 9, 2013 Author Posted October 9, 2013 I switched around the journal entry editor and applied a few patches for Firefox. Here's the link again: https://github.com/tcrowe/journal Are you using any software to facilitate journaling? If so, what is it? Can you tell me about it and what you like or dislike?
FriendlyHacker Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 Is there a demo? Wouldn't it better to make this in a way people can just copy paste the files to a ftp and start using it?
Tony Crowe Posted October 30, 2013 Author Posted October 30, 2013 No demos or screen shots yet. I started recently redoing this app for a 0.2 release. The UI will soon be using Bootstrap 3.0: http://getbootstrap.com/components/ The 0.1 release was highly experimental so a lot of things are redone.
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