They don’t have to. As long as Obsidian or any tool is working for someone then that is what they should use.
But for many including me Obsidian is not a solution for journaling although I extensively use Obsidian for note taking. You can read why here
Thank you. Looking forward to your feedback.
Thank you. I am glad to hear.
Thank you. Please provide feedback on github issues.
Thank you. Please provide feedback on github issues.
Thank you. You are right. Journiv Ahead sounds way better :)
Thank you. I am glad you like it.
I really can’t believe this is going so far for a sentence in the post…
Like I said above that is your interpretation of the sentence. People can have their own. The sentence does not state a fact which is either true or false.
So this Thanksgiving, give your family the gift of memories that last forever!
This is what I was thinking when I wrote that. “give your family the gift of memories that last forever” you don’t even have to give them the instance software to use it. You start using it capturing your memories and thoughts where you have full control and ownership on your data which can last with you for decades rather than according to some third party company terms and policies etc.
At somepoint you can “if you want to” give all/some part of it to your kids/family. What is said above is how Journiv started https://journiv.com/blog/the-story-behind-journiv
My kids are growing faster than I can keep up. Every day brings a hundred tiny moments worth remembering: the first clumsy dance, the way they mangle a new word, the small family adventures I wish I could preserve forever. Like many parents, I wanted to capture these moments—not just for today, but so my kids could look back decades from now and see their childhood through my eyes.
Quoted text ^
Both Day One and Apple Journal, which this software is proudly positioned as an alternative to, marketed themselves on “personal” and “private”, not “for the family”.
Yes because even they can just easily give it away in Apple or Google play family sharing they want you to pay the subscription individually :)
And now I am out of this comment thread. I don’t think I will have the last word here so I will let you go next :)
I am not sure where this thread is going. I don’t see it adding any value to the discussion or the project. If you have any specific feedback on how to make the project better. I will love to hear that.
I am also not sure how nitpicking on choice of word is helpful here. People can interpret things differently and above is your interpretation.
To provide context on why the post has that sentence:
Thanks! My main focus right now is simply building the product, the license doesn’t matter much if the product itself isn’t good yet. It’s always easier to move to a less restrictive license later than to go the other way, so this is the approach I’m starting with.
Journiv is source-available but not “Free Software” under the FSF/OSI definition. I chose the PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 license intentionally to keep the code open for personal and educational use which allow hosting for non-commercial while preventing “commercial” redistribution or hosting for commercial gain without permission.
My motivation behind Journiv is to give a solution to self hosted people like me and other a journal first experience on par with any major cloud offering so that they don’t have to mold their usage to a notes app and be unsatisfied and frustrated like me. This license enables everyone in the self hosted community to use Journiv.
I did consider permissive and copyleft licenses (Apache, GPL, BSD, etc.), but sustainability is a major concern for this project. I have already spent hundreds of hours on this over last couple of months and there is so much more to build (take a look at the issues page of github repo). I want to keep development open and transparent while ensuring that commercial entities can’t simply repackage and profit from it.
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.
Thank you.
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.
Thank you. Please provide any feedback on github issues.
Yes location, weather will be coming soon. There is existing feature request opened by the community for this. I am not sure what do you mean by routes. Can you provide more details as what such a feature will look like?