My Ambitious Journal Project: JOURNAX

JournaX My universal personal experience journal

Beautiful and Inspiring!

GOAL: To learn the ins and outs of database-supported software and have the digital journal of my dreams.

Concept:

I have been an avid journal writer since I can remember. A few years ago I bought a subscription to Journey.App and I love it. However, I have always dreamed of having all of my journals (my dream journal is on a different service as my stories and so on) on my own portable and offline app. But most offline journal apps are just u-g-l-y. I could use a notepad but that eventually gets boring.

I want to collect all my memories in a single USB drive (or 2 for BU) instead of spread them around in different services.

WHAT I WISH TO HAVE

1. simplified journal writing on the same window
2. markup language use which I can also edit to my own colors (like CSS: if bold, then pink IE)
3. Multiple journals with their own separate tags and categories
   • a. Dream Journal with categories of dreams
   • b. Personal Journal with maybe mood categories
   • c. Daily Log
   • d. Food journal with also categories maybe for scoring
   • e. language learning journal
   • f. general notes and ideas with categories
4. Trackers
   • a. Customised trackers to register any value like booleans, integers, and text. I kept this in a google sheet. But want to have it also included in the journal
     • Movies watched (text)
     • Weight tracker (Double)
     • Habits (Booleans)
   • b. charts according to what I am tracking
5. Reminders
   • a. birthdays
   • b. last time I... (IE: haircut)
   • c. big events quick note

LONG TERM GOALS

• learning SQL through and through
• learning to compile with SQLite (as I require multiple tables)
• learning to manipulate tables and data via input on Java
• learning JavaFX (via the Udemy course which has a 20-hour [out of 80] section 😱 ) Will try Spring when I learn enough.
• learning to implement all of this and run my own custom made journal via a USB
• learning API integration for things like the weather or spellchecker based on the computer's own options

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JAN 4 - 10, 2021:

first week

FEB 17 2021:

It has been over a month. I learned a lot about SQL and other Java concepts like OOO. Doing some work on the code to manipulate the SQL and dividing into their own classes before implementing any improvements.

JUN 2021:

tried to implement LOGIN/LOCK journal methods

TO DO

• Complete idea/concept

• Initial code flow

• section 5 from the Java course

• Start on SQL course first 2 sections

• Start building the database and what I want to be included by default

• sections 6 & 7 from the Java course

• Initiate first login screen with lock and unlock function

• Store and update username and password in the database

• SQL course 2 sections

• Create main journal input fields

• SQL course 2 sections

• Create multiple journals (and their databases) from inside the application

• allow multiple line input 11/8/21

• Delete option

• Delete chosen entry

• Show entry before deleting

• If NO, return to choose entry

• then cancel if chosen

• Update option

• Update chosen entry

• Show entry before Update

• If NO, return to choose entry

• then cancel if chosen

• Create a choice to randomly chose an entry according to random ID generation.

• Add encryption and decryption