Journiv
Self-hosted private journaling app with mood tracking and prompts
Journiv is a privacy-first, self-hosted journaling application designed to help you capture entries, track mood, and reflect over time while keeping full control of your data. It combines a clean writing experience with organization, search, and insights.
Key Features
- Rich journal entries with a minimal, distraction-reduced UI
- Mood tracking with visualizations and trend insights
- Prompt-based journaling to help start and maintain a writing habit
- Media uploads attached to entries
- Tags and multiple journals to organize different areas of life
- Advanced search across entries, media, and metadata
- “On This Day” resurfacing of past entries for reflection
Use Cases
- Personal daily journaling with mood tracking and long-term insights
- Maintaining separate journals for work, travel, or personal growth
- Searching and revisiting past moments using tags and full-text search
Limitations and Considerations
- The project is in beta and under active development; breaking changes may occur, so regular backups are recommended
Journiv is a strong fit for privacy-conscious users who want an owned, self-managed journaling workflow. Its mood tracking, prompts, search, and analytics make it useful both for quick daily entries and longer-term reflection.
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