I have similar kinda story and thats how Journiv was born: https://www.journiv.com/blog/the-story-behind-journiv

I wanted to capture all the stories/thoughts behind the pictures to some day maybe pass it down to my kids but I didn't want to put all this info on some third party server. I looked a lot for self hosted journal kind of solution but didn't find anything beside note taking apps (plenty of them). So finally decided to take matters in my hand. Immich integration was a primary use case for me so everyday/week I can add snippets notes to pics to keep memory of those pics and what I was thinking, what was happening, what did the kid said/do etc etc.

Agreed. This is legit so cool, but I just don’t have a use for it myself.

In between preparing for the snowpocalypse, I've been scratching my head, because this seems huge. Two very capable dev teams/softwares combined their wonder twin powers, and it looks so awesome.

• IBAN: in Europe, we can simply transfer money between bank accounts just by knowing a number called IBAN. We do not have to pay 3% to paypal, stripe or whomever for the transaction. This is especially important for smaller (recurring) donations. Also, having an IBAN signals being a European service/product.

Feedback

I've got the default production compose configuration with podman.

• Oftentimes, I can't select text within boxes in the browser. Everything is a button and I can't select text with the mouse. This is annoying.

Random

• The documentation is awesome! It looks like a high quality product!
• pwa on android works great with firefox and vanadium
• If I am using my instance, I can write freely because noone else has access to it. I wouldn't want to use someone else's instance as long as the text is not encrypted. It can have sensitive information and you should be able to write freely.

Editor

• I'd love having auto save always
• today's prompt:
  • at first I thought it depends on the date but after restarting the container, I think it is randomly selected whenever the container starts and then changes per day. This is just a guess.
  • Daily Prompts
    • I like having a random question per day. I'd love having an influence on the questions.
    • being able to up- and down-vote questions such that the likelihood increases/decreases slightly
    • being able to alter the question
    • add / remove (enable / disable) questions
    • just an idea: thematic question lists. e.g. 10 questions about life, questions about your past, questions about a potential life, silly questions / jokes, zen-koans: questions with no logical answer. probably that's too much for the app (at this stage) but why not dreaming.

Immich

Link Mode: Journiv will store references to Immich assets and also add them in an album called Journiv in you immich profile so you can easily see all the assets used in your journal.

My immich user did not receive a new album called "Journiv". I had to go to the journiv settings and "update connection" such that the folder appears. Yet, there are no entries.

In the website settings, it states "store reference to immich assets. Files are fetched on-demand" (unfortunately I couldn't copy and paste the original text as described above).

• To me, the best setting for photos would be to store a local preview and link to the original. A jpeg/jxl/avif would be increadibly small but display everything properly. If you want to zoom in, go to the original photo.

• Videos can be very big referencing them when using "copy to journiv" unnecessarily increases storage consumption. Having a local preview image and the reference to the original video would be great - for me.

• link to immich album

• suggest using the geo location of the immich photo

• suggestion for immich: add link to journiv in the photo (description)

Login

• Proton pass does not recognize the login fields, email and password.
• I expected to be able to use my username and password, but I can only provide email and password to login. Having both would be great.

Thank you!