I made a daily journal app, meet linked.
Hi IH!
wanted to share an app I made for my colleagues at work.
tldr
It's a daily journal app, opensource, free, data is stored locally (for now), first proper electron app I ever made and going to get some more features. You can add stuff on a day basis, kinda it being a diary but based on a calendar. Works on macos/windows/linux.
🏁How it started
So to give a bit of a backstory, some years ago I was using an app called "coypu" which lets you write down bullet points for a week clustered in days. I've used that app for quite some time and never was fully satisfied by the UI/UX of it. I wanted to contribute to the app, but at some point it was archived.
I haven't really used it much anymore as I didn't need such app at the time. Just recently however, me and my colleagues needed an app to track our sprint progress. While we do use jira, it wasn't really the right place to put your thoughts into - and we really dont like using jira - thats another story though.
Some may just use the OS default note taking app, but these didn't work for us, nor did many other options out there suite the usecases we had.
linked was born
Since I am very biased about design and how things should work, I decided to create an app for my team. That was the kickoff for linked somewhat at the end of march - a friday night.
As a web developer, my goto was electron - my fav frontend stack is vue and tailwind, so I added them too.
I quickly wrote the app within one weekend and presented a result on monday. My colleagues where pleased and we all were very hyped about it. I actually never had a project which motivated as much to continue working on it, I was in a rush.
Since that monday, I've worked almost daily adding more and more stuff, fine-tuning it to our needs.
Because of this app and since this is my first proper electron app, I also created a tempate/boilerplate to quickly bootstrap new apps - you never know when the next idea sparks your mind. Eventually I'll opensource the boilerplate too, let's see.
What features does it have?
- dark/light mode
- language support
- note per day
- keyboard shortcuts (found out that i need to fix those)
- idk know anymore, i am bad at pitching things ...
Things to come
- search
- calendar overview
- proper web-demo
- mobile/web apps
- syncing?
Try the app?
The app is stable, we use it since march now. It's far from perfect, I haven't really released up until today, despite having a v1 going. Need to work on the splashpage and fix the demo.
Speaking of the demo, you can try it here - just note that the demo is not properly working right now when you switch days. Gotta fix that.
Get the app on GitHub (macos/linux/windows).
I'd love to hear your thoughts!
