Taking inspiration from this article, I want to create a piece of software that feels like a journal and therapy session combined into one.
Right now, the web app acts as an interative journal; the user types in how they are feeling, and the the website repsonds back with relevant questions to keep the user writing. If you hit "Save Entry," it stores the current entry with the date to a database in Firebase. You can look at your past entries by clicking on the journal icon at the top.
Here is a sample video of the current prototype:
https://github.com/iamrita/enhanced-journal/assets/8162391/73647fcb-1f84-482e-940e-b6e2271b88c7
There is a lot to be explored here. I want the AI interaction here to not just help you feel inspired during one journal session, but to eventually draw on previous things you might have documented in prior sessions. I want it to be able to recognize positive and negative entries, and show some sort of mood tracker. Design discussions are located here: https://app.campsite.design/journal
Huge stretch - It would be cool if it could save places mentioned in journal entries on a map of some sort. For example, if I say "I went to an amazing restaurant with my boyfriend," it saves the restaurant on Google Maps. Not sure what this would like design wise so this is a big TBD.
If you don’t have Node.js installed, install it from here (Node.js version >= 14.6.0 required)
To run the app, run npm run dev.