README

Journal is a privacy first, self-hosted digital log book. It is designed to be accessible anywhere you go, allowing you to organize your thoughts, feelings and opinions in one place. Your Journals are stored with AES 256 encryption using your own password as the encryption key, resulting in a protected and inaccessible log book from outsiders.

Feature highlights

Mobile friendly
Advanced content editor (supports image upload)
Organise entries using categories
Create predefined sets of templates for entries
Entries, Templates and Images have AES-256 Encryption
Order your favorite categories to appear on the top
Quickly add entries by enabling the quick-add widget
Advanced search
Create accounts for users
Export entries

Getting started

You can use our Hosted version. This is the simplest way to use Journal.
You can host it yourself
You can join our Discord if you have questions

Try it out using Docker

curl -o docker-compose.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samihsoylu/journal/master/docker-compose.yml

docker compose up -d

Visit: http://localhost:8080/ Username: demouser Password: demopass

Requirements

A Linux-based server with shell access
PHP 7.4 or later.
MySQL 5.6+

PHP Extensions

The listed extensions are usually installed and enabled by default in most PHP 7 installations

samihsoylu / journal

Maintainers

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